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# bribery

«bribery» in Mova's school dictionary: **Giving or offering money, gifts or favours to someone so…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (bribery, uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Giving or offering money, gifts or favours to someone so they will do something dishonest or unfair for you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bribery/#m1)

2) (informal, humorous) Offering a treat to get someone to do something, as parents sometimes do. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bribery/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In law, news and ethics lessons, bribery is a crime: officials, referees or judges must not accept bribes. In everyday family life it is used jokingly: «a bit of bribery with chocolate got the kids to tidy up».

### examples

- Bribery is against the law. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bribery/#x1)
- The official went to prison for bribery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bribery/#x2)
- Mum used a little bribery to get us to eat our sprouts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bribery/#x3)
- The referee was accused of bribery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bribery/#x4)
- Bribery makes things unfair for honest people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bribery/#x5)
- At this last bribery, Pinocchio could no longer resist and said firmly: [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bribery/#x6)

### note

Uncountable. Related: bribe (noun and verb, a bribe), to bribe someone. Bribery is a serious crime even if the gift seems small.

### In the corpora

- [For the company of the godless shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.402/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bribery» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bribery/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.