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are bribed
verb
To give a bribe to; specifically, to ask a person to do something, usually against his/her will, in exchange for some type of reward or relief from potential trouble.
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Bank officials are bribed.
Line workers are bribed.
Poorly paid policemen are bribed to facilitate the trade.
Governments that question this are bribed with cheap Nigerian oil.
Safety inspectors are bribed, he said, and pilots have behaved erratically in the cockpit.
Many are bribed as part of the vast criminal network of trafficking between India and Nepal.
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Over time, bribery reinforces a dislike of what you are bribing them to do, and reinforces a love of what you are bribing with.
I had to be bribed".
Safety inspectors have been bribed, he asserted.
(In other words, they must be bribed).
We know we are being bribed.
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