English
Etymology
From bribe + -ery.
Pronunciation
Noun
bribery (plural briberies)
- The act of giving an illegal payment (a bribe) to a person in an official position as a means of influencing their decisions.
- Hypernyms: venality < corruption < crime
- (law) The activity of offering, giving, or accepting such bribes.
- Synonym: bribe (act sense)
- Hypernyms: venality < corruption < crime
The official was arrested on charges of bribery.
accept bribery
combat bribery
accused of bribery
Derived terms
Translations
making of illegal payment to persons in official positions as a means of influencing their decisions
- Afrikaans: omkopery
- Arabic: رَشْوَة f (rašwa)
- Armenian: կաշառում (hy) (kašaṙum)
- Bulgarian: подкупване n (podkupvane), рушветчийство (bg) n (rušvetčijstvo)
- Catalan: suborn (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 行賄 / 行贿 (zh) (xínghuì)
- Czech: úplatkářství n
- Danish: bestikkelse c
- Dutch: omkoperij (nl) f
- Esperanto: subaĉetado
- Finnish: lahjonta (fi)
- French: corruption (fr) f
- Galician: suborno
- German: Bestechung (de) f
- Greek: δωροδοκία (el) f (dorodokía)
- Hebrew: שיחוד m (shikhud)
- Hindi: please add this translation if you can
- Hungarian: megvesztegetés (hu)
- Indonesian: penyuapan (id), penyogokan (id)
- Irish: breabaireacht f
- Italian: concussione (it) f, corruzione (it) f
- Japanese: 賄賂のやり取り (わいろのやりとり, wáiro no yarítori), 賄賂 (ja) (わいろ, wairo)
- Khmer: ការស៊ីសំណូក (kaa sii sɑmnook)
- Korean: 증회 (jeunghoe), 뇌물 (ko) (noemul)
- Latin: largitio f
- Malay: rasuah (ms)
- Maori: utu whakapati
- Polish: łapówkarstwo (pl) n, łapownictwo (pl) n
- Portuguese: suborno (pt) m
- Russian: взя́точничество (ru) n (vzjátočničestvo)
- Slovak: úplatkárstvo n
- Spanish: soborno (es) m, cohecho (es) m
- Swedish: bestickning (sv) c, mutning (sv) c
- Thai: อามิสสินจ้าง (aamít sĭn jâang)
- Turkish: rüşvet (tr)
- Vietnamese: sự đút lót, sự hối lộ, sự mua chuộc
- Welsh: llwgrwobrwyaeth f
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giving, offering or accepting bribes