lubrication payment

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A bribe or extorted money, usually relatively small in amount, provided to a low-level government official or business person, in order to expedite a business decision, shipment, or other transaction, especially in a country where such payments are not unusual. euphemistic,idiomatic
    — A lubrication payment is a small payment to low-level business people or government officials to "grease the wheels" of business.

词形变化

lubrication payments plural

词源

By a metaphor in which facilitating human socioeconomic interaction is portrayed as lubricating machinery (e.g., oiling the gears, greasing the wheels); in this regard, compare also social lubricant.
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