'Bribery' definitions:
Definition of 'bribery'
From: WordNet
noun
The practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage [syn: bribery, graft]
Definition of 'Bribery'
From: GCIDE
- Bribery \Brib"er*y\, n.; pl. Briberies. [OE. brybery rascality, OF. briberie. See Bribe, n.]
- 1. Robbery; extortion. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- 2. The act or practice of giving or taking bribes; the act of influencing the official or political action of another by corrupt inducements. [1913 Webster]
- Bribery oath, an oath taken by a person that he has not been bribed as to voting. [Eng.] [1913 Webster]