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Bribe vs Rebribe - What's the difference?

bribe | rebribe |

As verbs the difference between bribe and rebribe

is that bribe is to give a bribe to while rebribe is to bribe again.

As a noun bribe

is something (usually money) given in exchange for influence or as an inducement to dishonesty.

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

    rebribe

    English

    Verb

    (rebrib)
  • To bribe again.
  • *1969 , (Vladimir Nabokov), Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2011, p. 338:
  • *:That same day (February 3, 1893) Van rebribed the already gorged janitor to have him answer all questions [...] with a brief assertion of utter ignorance.