Bribes - перевод на Русский и значение в Английском

noun

A blow made with the back of the hand.

Примеры использования:

Shut up, or i'll give you a backhander

noun

An illegal payment or gift that is given to a person, especially someone in authority, in order to get them to do something for you

Примеры использования:

Governments pledged to make it a criminal offence to slip backhanders to officials of other countri…

noun

A stopper for closing a hole in a container.

Примеры использования:

His invention was designed to cut a hole through an existing bung or stopper rather than through th…

verb

Close with a stopper.

Примеры использования:

The casks are bunged before delivery

noun

A bribe.

Примеры использования:

I know i'm not the only one to have stopped supporting animal welfare groups, so ultimately these g…

noun

A tapering orange-coloured root eaten as a vegetable.

Примеры использования:

Roast lamb with peas and carrots

noun

A long, pointed, orange root, eaten as vegetable, either raw or cooked

Примеры использования:

If they finished the construction ahead of schedule, they were offered the carrot of a bonus.

adjective

Having or showing a willingness to act dishonestly in return for money or personal gain.

Примеры использования:

Unscrupulous logging companies assisted by corrupt officials

verb

Cause to act dishonestly in return for money or personal gain.

Примеры использования:

There is a continuing fear of firms corrupting politicians in the search for contracts

adjective

Dishonest and willing to use your position or power to your own advantage, esp. for money

Примеры использования:

It’s been called the most politically corrupt city in the nation., your philosophy is corrupt., pol…

noun

A financial inducement; a bribe.

Примеры использования:

Pericles gave a handsome douceur to the spartan commanders to withdraw without fighting

verb

Let or make (something) fall vertically.

Примеры использования:

The fire was caused by someone dropping a lighted cigarette

noun

A small round or pear-shaped portion of liquid that hangs or falls or adheres to a surface.

Примеры использования:

The first drops of rain splashed on the ground

verb

Let fall to the ground

noun

Old-fashioned or less technical term for oedema.

noun

A tip or bribe.

Примеры использования:

Mccloy's little dropsy for services rendered

verb

Fasten (something) securely in a particular place or position.

Примеры использования:

They had candles fixed to their helmets

noun

A difficult or awkward situation from which it is hard to extricate oneself; a predicament.

Примеры использования:

How on earth did you get into such a fix?

verb

Restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken

noun

A thing that motivates or encourages someone to do something.

Примеры использования:

Give farmers an incentive to improve their land

noun

Something that encourages a person to do something

Примеры использования:

[ c ] tax incentives are sometimes effective in encouraging people to save money., [ u ] these kids…

noun

Something, especially money, that encourages a person or organization to do something

Примеры использования:

Financial/fiscal/monetary incentive cash grants were part of the financial incentives given to deve…

noun

A thing that persuades or leads someone to do something.

Примеры использования:

Companies were prepared to build only in return for massive inducements

noun

An act or a thing that is intended to make something happen or to persuade someone to do something

Примеры использования:

Inducement (for sb) to do sth they offered him a large pay increase as an inducement for him to sta…

noun

A sudden forceful recoil.

Примеры использования:

The kickback from the gun punches your shoulder

noun

Payment made to someone, esp. illegally, for providing help, a job, or a piece of business

Примеры использования:

Bankhead got a contract to supply computers to the department in exchange for a kickback.

noun

An amount of money that is secretly and illegally paid to someone in exchange for their help

Примеры использования:

He is accused of paying kickbacks to a district official to win contracts with the school system.

verb

Try to influence or thwart by underhand or unfair methods.

Примеры использования:

An attempt to nobble the jury

verb

To make something fail, especially to make a horse in a race fail by giving it drugs

Примеры использования:

The jury who convicted him were suspected of being nobbled., he nobbled her in the corridor to sign…

idiom

Eliminate by paying off (debts)

phrasal verb

(of a course of action) yield good results; succeed.

Примеры использования:

All the hard work i had done over the summer paid off

phrasal verb

Pay a debt in full.

Примеры использования:

I've saved up enough to pay off my mortgage

noun

The practice of bribing someone in return for the unofficial promotion of a product in the media.

Примеры использования:

If a record company spends enough money on payola, it can make any record a hit

noun

An underhand inducement.

Примеры использования:

He knew the schmear was on when the producer invited him to lunch

verb

Flatter or ingratiate oneself with (someone).

Примеры использования:

He was buying us drinks and schmearing us up

noun

A flexible strap or belt used in the form of a loop to support or raise a hanging weight.

Примеры использования:

The horse had to be supported by a sling fixed to the roof

verb

Suspend or arrange (something), especially with a strap or straps, so that it hangs loosely in a particular position.

Примеры использования:

A hammock was slung between two trees

noun

A sweetened drink of spirits, especially gin, and water.

Примеры использования:

In the capital, clubbers drink kabul slings and canned russian beer.

noun

A plane figure with four equal straight sides and four right angles.

Примеры использования:

A grid of ruled squares

adjective

Having the shape or approximate shape of a square.

Примеры использования:

A square table

adverb

Directly; straight.

Примеры использования:

The ball hit me square in the forehead

verb

Bribe or otherwise induce (someone) to commit an unlawful act such as perjury.

Примеры использования:

He was accused of conspiring to suborn witnesses

verb

To persuade someone, for example by offering them money, to commit an illegal act, especially to tell lies in a court of law

Примеры использования:

He is a liar, and he suborned perjury from her early on in this investigation., such agreements cou…

noun

A substance used to sweeten food or drink, especially one other than sugar.

Примеры использования:

Diet drinks contain artificial sweeteners like saccharin