Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who receives or agrees to receive a bribe.

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  • noun One who takes a bribe.

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Examples

  • Is accused bribee Ted Loza back on the campaign trail?

    DeMorning DeBonis: Aug. 9, 2010 2010

  • "We're now an equal opportunity investigative arm," she aid, with a laugh, "and we will arrest the briber and the 'bribee,' as it were."

    Corruption Arrests Hit Record in City 2010

  • If you want to focus your wrath on voter suppression, focus it on the casino owners who refused to make accomodation for their workers to attend, but then Obama as a big corporate shill and bribee wouldn't want to p*ss those folks off now would he.

    Judge Rules In Favor Of Vegas Strip Caucus Sites 2009

  • Whereas most old fashioned election cheating methods are of a "retail" nature (e.g., each vote corrupted by a bribe involves an interaction between the briber and the bribee), wholesale fraud is possible with e-voting systems.

    Fixing Our Broken Democracy 2009

  • The bribee knows what they've been paid and they have to live up to it.

    "Thousands of revelers... carried posters of former President Bill Clinton, and chanted 'Thank You U.S.A.!' and 'God Bless America.'" Ann Althouse 2008

  • The tax evader skimming unreported income into an offshore account; the briber shuffling funds to the bribee; the violator of the securities laws squirreling away illegal profits; the insecure politician or government official building a retirement fund abroad; the businessman fleeing his creditors; the husband fleeing his wife; the law-abiding citizen fleeing exposure to political or economic risk.

    Economic Principals David Warsh 1993

  • For it is a remarkable thing, that when this does not come in a material shape, such as you can count or handle, it is looked upon by the bribee as no bribe at all!

    Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 455 Volume 18, New Series, September 18, 1852 Various 1841

  • If the bribee has to do prison time for taking bribes, the bribers should do time as well. memphonative:

    Memphis Commercial Appeal Stories 2010

  • The only thing I can assume is that the writer is counting on the reader to connect the cost of a bribe to the severity of said bribe (expensive bribes would target more powerful people/slash require more from the bribee (sp?)).

    Original Signal - Transmitting Digg 2010

  • Bribing, it turns out, has as much effect on the briber as it does on the bribee.

    FAZED 2010

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