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Briber

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bribe  (brb)
n.
1. Something, such as money or a favor, offered or given to a person in a position of trust to influence that person's views or conduct.
2. Something serving to influence or persuade.
v. bribed, brib·ing, bribes
v.tr.
To give, offer, or promise a bribe to.
v.intr.
To give, offer, or promise bribes.
[Middle English, from Old French, piece of bread given as alms.]
briba·ble adj.
briber n.
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Noun1.Briber - someone who pays (or otherwise incites) you to commit a wrongful actbriber - someone who pays (or otherwise incites) you to commit a wrongful act
suborner
criminal, crook, felon, malefactor, outlaw - someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
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I have been credibly informed, and am inclined to believe, that the various boards of directors of railway companies, those gigantic jobbers and bribers, while quarrelling about everything else, agreed together some ten years back to buy up the learned profession of medicine, body and soul.
Tom Brown's Schooldays by Hughes, Thomas View in context
 
 
 
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