Definition of "bribe"

bribe

/bɹaɪb/

noun
plural bribes
1. Something (usually money) given in exchange for influence or as an inducement to breaking the law.
  Quotations
  Undue reward for anything against justice is a bribe.
  c. 1613-1625, Henry Hobart, Yardly v. Ellill
2. That which seduces; seduction; allurement.
  Quotations
  Not the bribes of sordid wealth can seduce to leave these everblooming sweets.
  1744, Mark Akenside, The Pleasures of the Imagination
  Remy, this was a bribe! Our whole marriage has been nothing but a series of bribes!
  1974, George Fox, Mario Puzo, Earthquake
verb
third-person singular simple present bribes, present participle bribing, simple past and past participle bribed
1. (transitive) To give a bribe to; specifically, to ask a person to do something against his/her original will, in exchange for some type of reward or relief from potential trouble.
  Quotations
  Neither is he worthy who bribes a man to vote against his conscience.
  October 23, 1848, Frederick William Robertson, an address delivered at the Opening of The Working Men's Institute
2. (transitive) To gain by a bribe; to induce as by a bribe.