英语词汇payola的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	payola
词源	payola. Entering the American lexicon in 1960, when it was found that disc jockeys in New York, Chicago, and other cities accepted payments from record companies in return for airing their records, the coinage payola is a contraction of pay and Victrola. The word came into the news again in 1974 and 1985 with similar scandals in the record business, but payola is also used to mean bribes paid to anyone.
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