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bribetaking

bribetaking noun: the acceptance of bribes.

Noun

bribetaking (uncountable)

  1. The acceptance of bribes.
    • My readers will bear in mind, that the “miscreant” has since been convicted and dismissed, for bribetaking and malversation of office, in the cases, which were transmitted by Colonel Outram, and quashed by the said minute!1853, Indus, Bombay Briberies; a tale of the present charter, page 45
    • To look the dishonors straight in the face; to flay bribe-sanctioning at the top, as we flay bribetaking at the bottom; to see that the corrupting of a legislature is a darker and a meaner sin than the slugging of a scab; to ask for "law and order" among the mighty as we ask it among the obscure...1909, John Graham Brooks, As Others See Us: A Study of Progress in the United States, page 344

Origin of bribetaking

From bribe + taking.

Questions about bribetaking

What does bribetaking mean?
Bribetaking means the acceptance of bribes.
What part of speech is bribetaking?
Bribetaking is a noun.

Words near bribetaking in the dictionary

  1. bribery
  2. bribes
  3. bribest
  4. bribetaker
  5. bribetakers
  6. bribetaking
  7. bribeth
  8. bribeworthy
  9. Bribiesca
  10. Bribiescas
  11. bribing

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