His usual trick: bribing the night watchman to let him into the bank.
Two charges of conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office (bribing officials) ranging from 2004 to 2012.
In the late 1980s several generic-drug companies were caught fabricating data and bribing FDA officials to gain approval.
The attorney scoffs at the idea that Gristina avoided arrest for so many years by bribing the police.
Now she was alternately wheedling, cursing, coaxing, bribing; all to no purpose.
The idea of bribing her with an emerald pendant shocked him profoundly.
I knew that I had done wrong in bribing a servant, but I was not a bit sorry for it.
They are bribing me; they are positively bribing me, Richie.
When it came to the point, and any bribing was to be done, I had hit upon a course.
Smith was serene and happy, for he had been bribing the engineer.
late 14c., "thing stolen," from Old French bribe "bit, piece, hunk; morsel of bread given to beggars" (14c., cf. Old French bribeor "vagrant, beggar"), from briber, brimber "to beg," a general Romanic word (Gamillscheg marks it as Rotwelsch, i.e. "thieves' jargon"), of uncertain origin; old sources suggest Celtic (cf. Breton breva "to break"). Shift of meaning to "gift given to influence corruptly" is by mid-15c.
late 14c., "pilfer, steal," also "practice extortion," from Old French briber "go begging," from bribe (see bribe (n.)). Related: Bribed; bribing.
