Bribe and Payment

Bribe

Bribe noun - Payment made to a person in a position of trust to corrupt his judgment.

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Payment and bribe are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Payment" instead a noun "Bribe".

Nearby Words: bribery, bribable, bribing, bribed, briber

Payment noun - The act of offering money in exchange for goods or services.

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Bribe and payment are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Bribe" instead a noun "Payment".

Nearby Words: pay, paying, payable, payer, payed

best	best bribe	best payment
equal	equal bribe	equal payment
direct	direct bribe	direct payment
fake	fake bribe	fake payment
Other adjectives: generous, initial, many, sufficient, proper, single, simple, small, large, big, huge, weekly.

They attempt to bribe Skeeter, a man who works at a crematorium, for the bodies, but the only payment he'll accept is a night with his long time crush, Emily Duncan.

Source: Sex for Services
After getting the money from the bribe and the first payment he ran, and saw that the victim had not pressed charges out of shame.

Source: Refuge In Audacity / Real Life
This is more likely to be a dramatic example than the normal way around— typically because the person taking the "bribe" has reasons of their own to do what's asked of them, but want to make a statement of some sort with the token payment.

Source: Comically Small Bribe

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