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bribery Definition

brib·ery (brībər ē)

noun pl. -·er·ies

the giving, offering, or taking of bribes

Etymology: ME & OFr briberie, theft: see bribe

bribery Law Definition

n

The criminal act or practice of voluntarily giving, offering, receiving, or soliciting a bribe to influence the official conduct of a person in a position or office of public trust. See also kickback.
commercial bribery
The voluntary giving, offering, receiving, or soliciting of a bribe to influence the discretionary conduct or decision of an agent, officer, or employee of a business.
bribery Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • official: The commitment in the OECD Convention refers specifically to bribery of a foreign public official.

Converse of object

  • combat: It is also directly at odds with international best practice on combating bribery.
  • detect: Within the UK, there are several ways in which the Inland Revenue's role in detecting bribery could be enhanced.
  • prevent: There are at least two essential reasons why laws preventing the bribery of foreign officials are desirable.
  • involve: Play involves bribery, shiftiness, blackmail, bluffing and double-crossing and it's all very exciting.
  • try: Don't kill the torturer - try bribery instead.
  • include: To secure for itself all those lands it used every imaginable and unimaginable method, including bribery, fraud and coercion.

Adjective modifier

  • attempted: You try to pay a traffic fine on the spot and get arrested for attempted bribery.
  • overseas: Yet there is no way that a strategy to control overseas bribery can work without it being clearly effective in the arms sector.
  • foreign: The effectiveness of SACE ' s code of ethics in preventing foreign bribery should be further monitored " .
  • international: The Government is committed to working proactively to detect international bribery, open investigations and cooperate with mutual legal assistance requests.
  • such: Any such bribery must be applied across the board.
  • alleged: This way, no political parties will have to depend on donations, dubious loans or alleged bribery for their election activities.

Modifies a noun

  • scandal: Any city or county council staff wanting to post bribery scandal information here are very very welcome.
  • allegation: There are at least five reasons why the UK should exercise its jurisdiction over overseas bribery allegations.
  • offense: We will allow UK companies to be prosecuted for bribery offenses committed overseas.
  • charge: Balfour Beatty is part of a consortium whose lead company, Spie Batignolles, faces bribery charges in the Lesotho Highland Water Project.
  • case: Alstom has also been cited in court in relation to the Lesotho Highland Water Project bribery case.

Preposition: in

  • transaction: The Convention, which was signed in 1997, is a highly targeted anti-corruption instrument that aims to prevent bribery in international business transactions.
  • business: I refuse to accept that bribery in business is inevitable and that nothing can be done to stamp out this disease.

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