To buy off

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	To influence to compliance; to cause to bend or yield by some consideration; as, to buy off conscience. - Chaucer.
	To detach by a consideration given; as, to buy off one from a party.

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bribe
buy
buy off
corkage
corrupt

grease one's palms
nobble
pay
pay off
To buy out

Clare was good-natured and self-indulgent, and sought to buy off with presents and flatteries; and when Marie became mother to a beautiful daughter, he really felt awakened, for a time, to something like tenderness.

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Stowe, Harriet Beecher View in context

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