bribery

«bribery» in Mova's school dictionary: Giving or offering money, gifts or favours to someone so… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (bribery, uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

1) Giving or offering money, gifts or favours to someone so they will do something dishonest or unfair for you. tree →

2) (informal, humorous) Offering a treat to get someone to do something, as parents sometimes do. tree →

sense in the lessons

In law, news and ethics lessons, bribery is a crime: officials, referees or judges must not accept bribes. In everyday family life it is used jokingly: «a bit of bribery with chocolate got the kids to tidy up».

examples

• Bribery is against the law. tree →
• The official went to prison for bribery. tree →
• Mum used a little bribery to get us to eat our sprouts. tree →
• The referee was accused of bribery. tree →
• Bribery makes things unfair for honest people. tree →
• At this last bribery, Pinocchio could no longer resist and said firmly: tree →

note

Uncountable. Related: bribe (noun and verb, a bribe), to bribe someone. Bribery is a serious crime even if the gift seems small.

In the corpora

• For the company of the godless shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «bribery» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.