bribe
b rahyb
- n payment made to a person in a position of trust to corrupt his judgment
- v make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence
- Reason: he took a bribe.
- A bribe is a bribe by any nameand the more euphemistic the name for it, the better.
- Appointed as a federal judge in Florida in 1979, Hastings had been acquitted in a 1983 criminal trial on charges of soliciting a $150,000 bribe two years earlier in a deal to .