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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bribery \Brib"er*y\, n.; pl {Briberies}. [OE. brybery
rascality, OF briberie. See {Bribe}, n.]
1. Robbery; extortion. [Obs.]
2. The act or practice of giving or taking bribes; the act of
influencing the official or political action of another by
corrupt inducements.
{Bribery oath}, an oath taken by a person that he has not
been bribed as to voting. [Eng.]
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
bribery
n : the practice of offering something (usually money) in order
to gain an illicit advantage [syn: {graft}]
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