payola
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noun
- the practice of paying bribes or graft for commercial advantage or special favors, as to a disc jockey for unfairly promoting one recording over others
- this kind of bribe or graft
See payola in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(pā-ōˈlə)
noun- Bribery of an influential person in exchange for the promotion of a product or service, such that of disc jockeys for the promotion of records.
- A bribe or a number of bribes given to an influential person in exchange for a promotion of a product or service: “I do not mean to imply that most Wall Street analysts typically receive payola for touting particular stocks” (Burton G. Malkiel).
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