bribe
/bɹaɪb/ noun C1- Something (usually money) given in exchange for influence or as an inducement to breaking the law. · c. 1613-1625, Henry Hobart, Yardly v. Ellill Undue reward for anything against justice is a bribe.
- The act of offering or paying such a payment: an act of bribery.
- That which seduces; seduction; allurement.
Plural bribes
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Instead of employing this diamond in attempting to bribe his jailers, who might only have taken it and then betrayed him to the governor, Dantès carefully preserved it, that in the event of his getting out of prison he might have wherewithal to live, for the sale of such a diamond would have quite sufficed to make his fortune.”
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