buy sb off
— phrasal verb with buy uk/baɪ/us/baɪ/verb bought, bought
to pay someone so that they do not cause you any trouble:
They tried to buy the guard at the bank off but he told the police and the gang was arrested.
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Fraud & corruption
- baksheesh
- blackmail
- cook
- cook the books idiom
- corrupt
- corruption
- cybercrime
- front for sth
- game-fixing
- get at sb
- graft
- impersonate
- imposture
- launder
- Ponzi scheme
- rort
- shell
- siphon sth off
- suborn
- swindle
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