Word: bribes
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...young U.P.C. thugs authorized to arrest persons suspected of magendo-the Swahili word for black marketeering. Virtually everyone in Uganda must purchase essential commodities on the black market, which potentially makes the entire population guilty of magendo. More often than not, Special Force agents are willing to accept a bribe in lieu of an arrest; the going rate is 3,000 Uganda shillings, the equivalent of 400 U.S. dollars...
...presented another view of the case: "a fraud, a sham, a fake, a lie, a disgrace." The "trusting, easygoing" Williams, said Koelzer, had been taken in by a scheme "created, controlled, produced and directed" by FBI Informer Mel Weinberg. Moreover, said Koelzer, the defendant had refused to accept a bribe for helping Habib immigrate-a fact borne out by tapes introduced later in the week...
...bribe is a bribe by any name-and the more euphemistic the name for it, the better. Baksheesh, currently in wide use in the Middle East, is a Persian word that is also found in Turkish and Arabic. It actually means a tip or gratuity given by a boss to his underling. The word was first used extensively to mean a bribe in connection with the money that a new sultan gave his troops. In most Spanish-speaking countries, el soborno means a payoff, but in Mexico payola is aptly described as the bite (la mordida...
...Germans call it Schmiergeld (grease money), though export traders usually simply say N.A. for niitzliche Abgabe (useful contribution). In France, where there is veritas in the vino, a payoff is called a pot-de-vin or jug of wine. The Italians refer to a bribe as a bustarella (little envelope). Under-the-table payments in East Africa go by the sobriquet chai, Swahili...
...onetime British colonies, the words vary widely: a bribe in Nigeria is called dash, in India a backhander. The popular Japanese word for bribe is wairo, but corruption is poetically called kuroi kiri, or black mist...