Bribery

Definition

bribe /braÇb/ n တံစိုးလက္ေဆာင္။ လာဘ္။ take/accept bribes ❍ The policeman was offered/given a bribe of £5 000 to keep his mouth shut. v ~ sb (with sth) လာဘ္ထိုးသည္။ attempt to bribe a jury with offers of money ❍ He bribed his way past (ie gave a bribe to) the guard and escaped. ❍ One of the witnesses was bribed to give false evidence. ❏ bribe sb into doing sth [ PHRV ] (တစ္ခုခု လုပ္ေပးရန္) လာဘ္ထိုးသည္။ She was bribed into handing over secret information. ❏ bribery /'braÇbǝri/ n [U] လာဘ္ေပးလာဘ္ယူ။ accuse/convict sb of bribery ❍ a bribery scandal.

Examples

1. They were found guilty of trying to bribe officials.
2. [bribe someone to do something] : They tried to bribe the judge to find their brother not guilty.
3. I tried bribing her with sweets
4. but it didn’t work.