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money's way of skipping the line everyone else is standing in.
means To bribe is to offer someone money, gifts, or favors to get them to act dishonestly or in your favor, usually against their duty.
from From Old French 'bribe,' which meant a piece of bread given to a beggar — a scrap, a handout. The sense slid over the centuries from charity to corruption: the morsel you give to win favor became the payment you slip to bend a rule. By the time it settled into English, the bread was gone but the buying remained.
- ancient art
- Babylonian Code of Hammurabi already banned judicial bribes
- polite name
- called grease, baksheesh, or facilitation payments worldwide
- tax twist
- Germany allowed bribe deductions until 1999
- holy resistance
- the word stems from a medieval term for stolen scraps
carlos ghosn nissan scandal — former ceo arrested in 2018 for allegedly accepting $140 million in bribes and underreporting compensation
fifa corruption scandal 2015 — sepp blatter and executives convicted of accepting bribes for world cup hosting decisions in russia and qatar