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Definition of backscratching in English: backscratchingnounˈbakskratʃɪŋˈbækˌskrætʃɪŋ mass nounThe reciprocal provision of help or support, typically in an underhand or illicit manner. the friendship thrives on little more than mutual backscratching as modifier backscratching politics Example sentencesExamples - I hope, however, that they are equally keen on maintaining the age-old tradition of literary backscratching.
- Overlooked in all this international backscratching is a country with a longer Sino track record and perhaps a, if less visible, more dignified national character.
- It seems that the country cannot continue the backscratching among businessmen, bureaucrats and politicians that has done so much to prolong the nation's decade-old economic malaise.
- While I'm sure they have better things to do with their private plane than ferry around their useless offspring and friends, the tales remind me of a bit of backscratching just before the election in 2000.
- This is a real problem, albeit not one of recent vintage; mutual backscratching is especially endemic in academic book reviews.
- The mutual backscratching between ‘the gang’ and ‘the law’ led me to look at ‘the law’ as operating very similarly to a gang.
- Or maybe it's just another case of sordid backscratching among the powerful elite at the UN.
- Of course, business is all about mutual backscratching, nothing wrong with that, but if I am right, I want to be a part of that network.
- They're not only using these books to fill space and time that might be used to better purpose, but they're also engaging in corporate backscratching.
- As a comprehensive report on media lobbying by the Center for Public Integrity demonstrates, when it comes to mutual backscratching, the primates in the National Zoo have nothing over the networks and Congress.
- All in all, it makes me wonder what the organization is getting in return from their government backscratching - other than the short end of the stick.
Synonyms corruption, bribery, bribing, dishonesty, deceit, fraud, fraudulence, subornation, unlawful practices, illegal means, underhand means
Definition of backscratching in US English: backscratchingnounˈbækˌskrætʃɪŋˈbakˌskraCHiNG The mutual providing of favors or services, especially when the legitimacy of such dealings is doubtful. the friendship thrives on little more than mutual backscratching Example sentencesExamples - This is a real problem, albeit not one of recent vintage; mutual backscratching is especially endemic in academic book reviews.
- I hope, however, that they are equally keen on maintaining the age-old tradition of literary backscratching.
- Overlooked in all this international backscratching is a country with a longer Sino track record and perhaps a, if less visible, more dignified national character.
- As a comprehensive report on media lobbying by the Center for Public Integrity demonstrates, when it comes to mutual backscratching, the primates in the National Zoo have nothing over the networks and Congress.
- While I'm sure they have better things to do with their private plane than ferry around their useless offspring and friends, the tales remind me of a bit of backscratching just before the election in 2000.
- All in all, it makes me wonder what the organization is getting in return from their government backscratching - other than the short end of the stick.
- Of course, business is all about mutual backscratching, nothing wrong with that, but if I am right, I want to be a part of that network.
- It seems that the country cannot continue the backscratching among businessmen, bureaucrats and politicians that has done so much to prolong the nation's decade-old economic malaise.
- They're not only using these books to fill space and time that might be used to better purpose, but they're also engaging in corporate backscratching.
- The mutual backscratching between ‘the gang’ and ‘the law’ led me to look at ‘the law’ as operating very similarly to a gang.
- Or maybe it's just another case of sordid backscratching among the powerful elite at the UN.
Synonyms corruption, bribery, bribing, dishonesty, deceit, fraud, fraudulence, subornation, unlawful practices, illegal means, underhand means
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