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词汇 bribery
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bribery n.

late 14c., "theft, robbery, swindling, pilfering," from Old French briberie; see bribe (n.) + -ery. The specific sense of "act of magistrates taking money for corrupted services" is from 1540s; the sense of "offering of a bribe" is from 1560s.

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