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Bribe vs Buyout - What's the difference?

bribe | buyout |

As nouns the difference between bribe and buyout

is that bribe is something (usually money) given in exchange for influence or as an inducement to dishonesty while buyout is (finance) the acquisition of a controlling interest in a business or corporation by outright purchase or by purchase of a majority of issued shares of stock.

As a verb bribe

is to give a to.

bribe

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Something (usually money) given in exchange for influence or as an inducement to dishonesty.
  • * Hobart
  • Undue reward for anything against justice is a bribe .
  • That which seduces; seduction; allurement.
  • * Akenside
  • Not the bribes of sordid wealth can seduce to leave these everblooming sweets.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Verb

    (brib)
  • To give a to.
  • * F. W. Robertson
  • Neither is he worthy who bribes a man to vote against his conscience.
  • To gain by a bribe; to induce as by a bribe.
  • to bribe somebody's compliance

    buyout

    English

    Alternative forms

    * buy-out

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (finance) The acquisition of a controlling interest in a business or corporation by outright purchase or by purchase of a majority of issued shares of stock.
  • Derived terms

    * leveraged buyout * management buyout

    See also

    * merger * sellout * takeover ----