Definitions for bribe

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Spelling: [brahyb]

IPA: /braɪb/

Bribe is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 30 anagrams from letters in bribe (bbeir).

Definitions for bribe

noun

1. money or any other valuable consideration given or promised with a view to corrupting the behavior of a person, especially in that person's performance as an athlete, public official, etc.:
2. anything given or serving to persuade or induce:

verb (used with object)

1. to give or promise a bribe to:
2. to influence or corrupt by a bribe:

verb (used without object)

1. to give a bribe; practice bribery.

Origin of bribe

1350-1400; Middle English Middle French: remnant of food given as alms, said to be *bri(m)b- denoting something small

Examples for bribe

"Maybe you could bribe Jim Wakely into giving something away," she suggested.

You, with the impudence of your class, think you can come to me and bribe me to betray my employer.

But at least in Moscow, a bribe or a good connection stand you a fighting chance to get what you need.

In a sense, she attempts to bribe the pastor, offering to make his church her home.

Would a Sunday-school picnic constitute a bribe worth mentioning?

Asked if he did anything wrong, Cianci responded simply, “I was not guilty of conspiracy to take a bribe.”

Then I tried to bribe them, and they ordered me out of the room.'

Suppose a congressional aide overhears a phone call in which a senator takes a bribe.

“I did not have enough money to bribe the judge, so I decided to become a mercenary,” Mozhayev told a local reporter.

No bribe—and he was shameless in his offers—could wring more than that from her.