bribery

/ˈbrɑɪ·bə·ri/ n [U]

Definition

› the crime of giving someone money or something else of value, often illegally, to persuade that person to do something you want: Charges of bribery and official corruption were made.

(Definition of bribery n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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