bribery
bribery
Definition
brib·ery (brīb′ər 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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