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101purchase — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Act of buying Nouns 1. purchase, buying, emption; purchasing power; bargain (see cheapness); installment buying or plan, time purchase plan, buying on time, deferred payment, layaway plan, revolving… …
102Motive — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Motive >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 motive motive springs of action wellsprings of action GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 reason reason ground call principle Sgm: N 2 by end by end by purpose …
103Purchase — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Purchase >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 purchase purchase emption Sgm: N 1 buying buying purchasing shopping Sgm: N 1 preemption preemption refusal GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 coemption …
104put in the fix — vb American to bribe, suborn, or corrupt (in order to resolve a problem) …
105put the fix in — vb American to bribe, suborn, or corrupt (in order to resolve a problem) …
106tamper — v. n. 1. Meddle, intermeddle, dabble, have to do (in a tentative way). 2. Intrigue, deal secretly, use bribery, seduce, suborn …
107bribe — I. n. Reward of treachery, price of corruption, corrupting gift. II. v. a. Suborn, gain by a bribe, give a bribe to …
108bribe — 1. verb he used his wealth to bribe officials Syn: buy off, pay off, suborn; informal grease someone s palm, fix, square 2. noun she accepted bribes Syn: inducement, incentive, payola; informal payoff, kickback, boodle, sweetener …
109get at — 1) it s difficult to get at the pipes Syn: access, get to, reach, touch 2) she had been got at by enemy agents Syn: corrupt, suborn, influence, bribe, buy off, pay off; informal fix, square 3) …
110grease someone's palm — informal my Uncle Duke would grease the commissioner s palm on Tuesday, and on Wednesday his speakeasy would be serving up booze by the barrel Syn: bribe, buy (off), corrupt, suborn, give an inducement to; informal give a sweetener to …
