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bribe
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Word definitions for bribe in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "thing stolen," from Old French bribe "bit, piece, hunk; morsel of bread given to beggars" (14c., compare Old French bribeor "vagrant, beggar"), from briber , brimber "to beg," a general Romanic word (Gamillscheg marks it as Rotwelsch , i.e. ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bribe \Bribe\, v. i. To commit robbery or theft. [Obs.] To give a bribe to a person; to pervert the judgment or corrupt the action of a person in a position of trust, by some gift or promise. An attempt to bribe, though unsuccessful, has been holden to ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Something (usually money) given in exchange for influence or as an inducement to dishonesty. 2 That which seduces; seduction; allurement. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To give a bribe#Noun to. 2 (context transitive English) To gain by a bribe; ...
Usage examples of bribe.
He bribed, begged, and wheedled drops of blood out of the fingers of hundreds of aguey East Indians.
Owning little attractive apart from his name, Calpurnius Piso, and his eminently respectable ancestry, Piso had needed to bribe heavily to secure election.
Gardner Alden from trying to get what he wants anyway - I tell you, Asey, he tried to bribe me!
We evaded that and then bribed this same Gaius Caesar to confirm Auletes in his tenure of the throne.
The cartel considered him adequate for paying Smith his bribes, and for balancing the ledgers at that bordello I mentioned, but Moore found out that cartel headquarters in Prussia considered their man not cutthroat enough to handle the next phase of their plan to crush us.
You bribed the former enumerator with both golds and your daughter, and blame me for their failings and yours.
Hamorians are high on parchment, but their enumerators are not so well-trained, and can be bribed by those of Hamor.
For near ten years that man murdered, stole, bribed and tortured his way across this land and others.
We arranged for the truck loaded with contraband, driven by a Matabele -detainee we had bribed, to be waiting for him on the Tuti road.
So he tied the dog to a tree and beat him with a kiboko until he could see his ribs sticking out of the meat of his back, then he took back the gold coins and cattle with which he had bribed him, then he beat him again and finally, still squealing like a bull elephant in musk, Taka-Taka went away and never came back to these hills.
Publius Sulla and his dear friend Publius Autronius, were discovered to have bribed massively.
I vowed months ago in this House that if it came to my attention that a consular candidate had bribed, I would personally make sure he was charged and prosecuted.
This was not dishonorable, as the bribed man would indeed vote the proper way, but then feel no pangs about giving evidence at a prosecution because he had been recruited to do just that before he took the money.
Off to Numidia the Senate sent the praetor Lucius Cassius Longinus, under instructions to bring King Jugurtha in person to Rome, where he was to be made to provide Gaius Memmius with the names of all those he had bribed throughout the years.
YIBC families to be iemporarily moved into his jurisdiction, then bribed them to vote for him.