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: --
He said that all sorts of malpractices took place, including nepotism, favouritism, the giving of backhanders and so on.
Why do we have to bribe the judge with a backhander on own resources?
It is a pretty wide backhander if we give it to every local authority.
It might perhaps be called the art of the backhander.
They have been given a backhander, a sort of tip, of about £0·7 million for being good boys.
Are they not a recipe for even more unsafe lorries and for bribery and backhanders from various operators in the road haulage business?
They are the people who, year after year, have been getting the backhanders—getting the money out of their merit awards.
It is corrupt not only because it gives backhanders—that occurs, too—but because there is a corruption of thought.
