0 informal for bribe
1 an illegal payment or gift that is given to a person, especially someone in authority, in order to get them to do something for you:
They probably also reckon that we all take backhanders.
Suddenly, these people have become super-whizzkids and are worth a £1 million backhander.
Against that background, it would be possible to slip the boys in, give the boys a backhander and slip them out again.
It appears that the amendment was delivered as a backhander.
That is about as moral as giving someone a backhander to steal their own family silver.
It is a tax concession for the landed gentry, a backhander for the best-off.
It was, of course, interlaced with one or two backhanders.
It is corrupt not only because it gives backhanders—that occurs, too—but because there is a corruption of thought.
