get at sb
(INFLUENCE) informal — phrasal verb with get /ɡet/ verb (present participle getting, past tense got, past participle got or US gotten)Definition
› to influence a person illegally, usually by offering them money or threatening them: The accused claimed that the witness had been got at.Fraud and corruption
(Definition of get at sb (INFLUENCE) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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get along phrasal verb (BE FRIENDLY)
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get along phrasal verb (DEAL WITH)
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get an eyeful idiom
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get around phrasal verb
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get at sb phrasal verb (CRITICIZE)
- get at sb phrasal verb (INFLUENCE)
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get at sth phrasal verb (REACH)
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get at sth phrasal verb (SUGGEST)
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get away phrasal verb
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get away with murder idiom
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get away with sth phrasal verb (AVOID PUNISHMENT)
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Synonyms and related words:
- blackmail noun
- buy sb off phrasal verb
- cook the books idiom
- corrupt adjective (BAD)
- corrupt verb (MAKE BAD)
- corruption noun (BAD BEHAVIOUR)
- cybercrime noun
- defraud verb
- graft noun (INFLUENCE)
- impersonate verb
- imposture noun
- launder verb (MONEY)
- malfeasance noun
- malpractice noun
- rort noun
- rort verb
- shell noun (COMPANY)
- siphon sth off phrasal verb
- swindle verb
- tax evasion noun
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