BRIBERY Synonyms

• (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient

• the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage

• the act of grafting something onto something else

• cause to grow together parts from different plants

• place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient

• a backhanded blow

• lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain

• in a state of progressive putrefaction

• decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation)

• moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles

• destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity

• inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by committing a felony)

• something that seduces or has the quality to seduce

• qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward

• the act of influencing by exciting hope or desire

• a positive motivational influence

• act of bringing about a desired result

• a commercial bribe paid by a seller to a purchasing agent in order to induce the agent to enter into the transaction

• a bribe given to a disc jockey to induce him to promote a particular record

• underhandedly or improperly inducing someone to do something improper or unlawful

• perjured testimony that someone was persuaded to give

• something added to foods to make them taste sweeter

• anything that serves as an enticement

• a bribe paid to someone to insure that something is kept secret