bribery payment

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• Bribery — • The payment or the promise of money or other lucrative consideration to induce another, while under the obligation of acting without any view to private emolument, to act as the briber shall prescribe Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006.… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• BRIBERY — BRIBERY, making a gift to a person in authority, especially a judge. The injunction not to take bribes is several times repeated in the Bible, twice with the reason given that bribes blind the clear sighted and upset the pleas of the just (Ex. 23 …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• bribery — brib·ery n pl er·ies: the crime of giving or taking a bribe Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. bribery I …   Law dictionary

• Bribery — Political corruption Corruption Perceptions Index, 2010 …   Wikipedia

• bribery — /bruy beuh ree/, n., pl. briberies. the act or practice of giving or accepting a bribe: Bribery of a public official is a felony. [1350 1400; ME briberie theft < MF: begging. See BRIBE, ERY] * * * Crime of giving a benefit (e.g., money) in order… …   Universalium

• bribery — A crime; the voluntary giving or receiving of anything of value in corrupt payment for an official act done or to be done or with the corrupt intent to influence the action of a public official or of any other person professionally concerned with …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• bribery — noun /ˈbɹaɪbəɹi/ a) the making of illegal payment, or bribes, to persons in official positions as a means of influencing their decisions b) the activity of giving, offering or accepting bribes …   Wiktionary

• Facilitating payment — A facilitating payment is a certain type of payment to foreign officials which is not considered to be bribery according to legislations of some states as well as in the international anti bribery conventions, e.g., coming from the OECD.… …   Wikipedia

• Lockheed bribery scandals — The Lockheed bribery scandals encompassed a series of bribes and contributions made by officials of U.S. aerospace company Lockheed from the late 1950s to the 1970s in the process of negotiating the sale of aircraft.The scandal caused… …   Wikipedia

• Facilitation payment — A facilitation payment is an ethically questionable payment made in order to procure or speed up the provision of services. A distinction is generally drawn between facilitation payments and outright bribery and corruption. In many countries it… …   Wikipedia

• grease payment — noun A bribe or extorted money, usually relatively small in amount, provided to a low level government official or business person, in order to expedite a business decision, shipment, or other transaction, especially in a country where such… …   Wiktionary