Buy-off Synonyms

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Synonyms for Buy-off

corrupt
To make or become corrupt
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influence
To exert or have influence on; have an effect on the nature, behavior, development, action, or thought of
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fix
To become stable or firm; harden:
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do-business
(Slang) To urinate.
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get to
To affect adversely; to upset or annoy.
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grease palm
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lubricate
To cause to feel cheerful and sociable by the consumption of alcohol:
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make a deal
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pay off
A reward.
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sweeten-the-pot
(Idiomatic) To increase a wager.
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tamper
To tamper is to interfere with something you shouldn't in a harmful way or to change something you shouldn't change.
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bribe
Money or other valuable consideration (including a gift or favor) given or promised with the intent to corruptly influence the judgment or actions of a person, especially one in a position of trust such as a public official or juror.
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Buy-off Sentence Examples

  • In the same year he was elected parish priest of Glarus, in spite of the pope's nomination of Heinrich Goldli, an influential pluralist of Zurich, whom Zwingli found it necessary to buy off at an expense of more than a hundred gulden.

  • The exchequer being drained by the payment of 10,000 pieces of gold to buy off the Gauls who had invaded their territories about 279 B.C., and by the imposition of an annual tribute which was ultimately raised to 80 talents, they were compelled to exact a toll on all the ships which passed the Bosporus - a measure which the Rhodians resented and avenged by a war, wherein the Byzantines were defeated.

  • She needed more blood and more time to buy off her allies.

  • Through his generals Ardoburius and Aspar he waged two fairly successful wars against the Persians (421 and 441), and after the failure of one expedition (431) by means of a gigantic fleet put an end to the piracies of the Vandal Genseric. A Hunnish invasion in 408 was skilfully repelled, but from 441 the Balkan country was repeatedly overrun by the armies of Attila, whose incursions Theodosius feebly attempted to buy off with everincreasing payments of tribute.

  • He proposed to provoke the Tatars to a rupture by repudiating the humiliating tribute with which the Republic had so long and so vainly endeavoured to buy off their incessant raids.

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