Definitions for bribe
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Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. bribe, payoff(verb)

   payment made to a person in a position of trust to corrupt his judgment

2. bribe, corrupt, buy, grease one's palms(verb)

   make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence

   "This judge can be bought"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. bribe(Noun)

   Something (usually money) given in exchange for influence or as an inducement to dishonesty.

2. bribe(Verb)

   To give a bribe to.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Bribe(noun)

   a gift begged; a present

2. Bribe(noun)

   a price, reward, gift, or favor bestowed or promised with a view to prevent the judgment or corrupt the conduct of a judge, witness, voter, or other person in a position of trust

3. Bribe(noun)

   that which seduces; seduction; allurement

4. Bribe(verb)

   to rob or steal

5. Bribe(verb)

   to give or promise a reward or consideration to (a judge, juror, legislator, voter, or other person in a position of trust) with a view to prevent the judgment or corrupt the conduct; to induce or influence by a bribe; to give a bribe to

6. Bribe(verb)

   to gain by a bribe; of induce as by a bribe

7. Bribe(verb)

   to commit robbery or theft

8. Bribe(verb)

   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

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Bribe

   brīb, n. something given to influence unduly the judgment or corrupt the conduct: allurement.—v.t. to influence by a bribe: to gain over.—v.i. to practise bribery.—ns. Brib′er, one who bribes; Brib′ery, the act of giving or taking bribes; Brib′ery-oath, an oath taken by an elector that he has not been bribed. [O. Fr. bribe, a lump of bread; origin dub.]

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of bribe in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of bribe in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of bribe in a Sentence

1. Nancy Pelosi:

   President Trump used taxpayer money to bribe foreign countries to influence the 2020 elections for his own political gain.

2. Judith Irène Balou:

   We will then get the answers from teachers and then bribe the exam supervisor to allow us to enter the hall with it.

3. Hindi Filmy Quote:

   Jag uska joh paisa wala ho, Ghaple se mile ya rishwat se(The world belongs to the one who has money, whether you get it by duping or taking bribe)

4. Judith Irène Balou:

   From the first day of the exams, we were getting the questions from friends by phone, most often shared through WhatsApp a day before the exam, we will then get the answers from teachers and then bribe the exam supervisor to allow us to enter the hall with it.

5. June Jordan:

   Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

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