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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
baksheesh
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All the paperwork seemed correct, except that most important paperwork of all - the baksheesh.
▪ However, the company's far greater resources of baksheesh soon restored them to liberty.
▪ If this makes you uneasy, think about distributing a little preemptive baksheesh as a goodwill gesture.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
baksheesh

baksheesh \baksheesh\ n. 1. A relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter). Same as Backsheesh.

Syn: gratuity, tip, bakshish, bakshis, backsheesh.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
baksheesh

1620s, in India, Egypt, etc., "a tip," from Persian bakhshish, literally "gift," from verb bakhshidan "to give" (also "to forgive"), from PIE root *bhag- "to share out, apportion, distribute" (see -phagous).

Wiktionary
baksheesh

n. (context business ethics English) In the Middle East, southwest Asia and eastern Europe, a bribe or tip. vb. To bribe with a baksheesh.

WordNet
baksheesh

n. a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter) [syn: gratuity, tip, pourboire, bakshish, bakshis, backsheesh]

Wikipedia
Baksheesh

Baksheesh or bagsheesh (from bakhshesh) is tipping, charitable giving, and certain forms of political corruption and bribery in the Middle East and South Asia.

Usage examples of "baksheesh".

In order to do fieldwork he needed a competent dragoman, or guide and interpreter, who could oversee his thieving workmen and hand out baksheesh up and down the Nile.

A sleepy-eyed suffragi handed her a note and stood waiting hopefully for baksheesh.

Sapper, Creepy, Sleazy, Doper, Droopy, Dumpy, Shirty, Groupie, Greasy, Dreary, Shitful, Crock, and Baksheesh.

I may go and announce them to the pasha and receive a small baksheesh and you too, my poor woman.

Held have to spend the rest of the afternoon tracking the congressman down so he could deliver the promised baksheesh without attracting undue attention.

The baksheesh flowed and power systems were privatized from Brazil to Pakistan.

With these devious American dhimmi, every transaction had to be greased with baksheesh.

GLOSSARY OF ARABIC WORDS AND PHRASES afreet: evil demon Allah yimessikum bil-kheir: God give you a good evening Amerikani: American Alemani: German baksheesh: tip, present burko: face veil dahabeeyah: houseboat effendi: sir essalamu 'aleikum: peace be with you fahddle: gossip fellah (pi.