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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bribery \Brib"er*y\, n.; pl. Briberies . [OE. brybery rascality, OF. briberie. See Bribe , n.] Robbery; extortion. [Obs.] The act or practice of giving or taking bribes; the act of influencing the official or political action of another by corrupt inducements. ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Bribery is the act of giving money, goods or other forms of recompense to a recipient in exchange for an alteration of their behavior (to the benefit/interest of the giver) that the recipient would otherwise not alter. Bribery is defined by Black's Law ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage [syn: graft ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "theft, robbery, swindling, pilfering;" see bribe (n.) + -ery . Specifically of magistrates taking money for corrupted services from mid-16c.; sense of "offering of a bribe" is from 1560s.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 the making of illegal payment, or bribes, to persons in official positions as a means of influencing their decisions 2 (context legal English) the activity of giving, offering or accepting bribes
Usage examples of bribery.
I, for example, have been forced to draft counter-legislation for bribery at the curule elections.
Gaius Piso had brought in four years earlier against electoral bribery in the consular polls.
Himself guilty of massive bribery, Piso had been forced into legislating against it.
The trial would take place in the Bribery Court, as the prosecutors were all patrician and therefore could not use Cato and the Plebeian Assembly.
His edicts when he published them were most imposing: no one would be uninspected, no one would be cosseted, no one would buy his way out with bribery, the jury roster would smell sweeter than a bank of violets in Campania.
Cato was famous for rounding up a good number of men to take bribes and then using them to testify in the Bribery Court.
For which reason most of the men prosecuted for electoral bribery had succeeded in being elected, from Publius Sulla and Autronius to Murena.
The one is an aristocrat whom Fortune made too small in every way, and the other is a rigid, intolerant hypocrite who prosecutes men for electoral bribery but approves of electoral bribery when it meets his own needs.
Plebsand Corneliusinto agreeing that Gaius Piso himself should draft the new bribery law.
First he attacked the law the consul Gaius Piso had brought in four years earlier against electoral bribery in the consular polls.
The public offence of bribery may be defined as the offering or giving of payment in some shape or form that it may be a motive in the performance of functions for which the proper motive ought to be a conscientious sense of duty.
House of Commons was expelled for bribery, and the great Marlborough could not clear his character from pecuniary dishonesty, there was much corruption in the highest official quarters.
The level of the offence of official bribery has gradually descended, until it has become an extremely rare thing for the humbler officers connected with the revenue to be charged with it.
It very rarely happens, however, that direct bribery is supposed to influence such appointments.
In many states, bribery or the attempt to bribe is made a felony, and is punishable with varying terms of imprisonment, in some jurisdictions it may be with a period not exceeding ten years.