Bribe vs Kickback - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between bribe and kickback

is that bribe is something (usually money) given in exchange for influence or as an inducement to dishonesty while kickback is a backward kick.

As a verb bribe

is to give a bribe 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

kickback

English

Noun

(en noun)

(countable) A backward kick.

* 2010 , Christina T. Loguidice, ?Bill Loguidice, Wii Fitness For Dummies

Kickbacks work the triceps muscle at the back of your arm. Exercising these muscles helps eliminate arm jiggle.

(countable) A clandestine payment in return for a favor; especially an illegal one

(uncountable, firearms, machinery) Recoil; a sudden backward motion, usually in the direction of the operator.

(countable, machinery) An accident wherein an object being cut by a rotating blade or disk, such as a circular saw, is caught by the blade and thrown outward

(oil drilling) A dangerous buildup of gas pressure at the wellhead

(countable, bowling) The board separating one bowling lane from another at the pit end

(uncountable, bridge) In contract bridge, an ace asking convention initiated by the first step above four of the agreed trump suit.

(pinball) A feature that saves the ball from draining and propels it back into play.

* 1973 , Doug Anderson, Pinball Wizard'' (in ''Texas Monthly volume 1, number 7, August 1973, page 84)

We've come a long way since then. The progeny of that nail have been bent and twisted into what we all know and love as roll overs, kickbacks , and thumper-bumpers.