0 a gift offered to persuade a person to do something, usually dishonest -- สินบน
Police officers are not allowed to accept bribes.
1 to give (someone) a bribe -- ติดสินบน
The costs of business become unnecessarily high due to the inevitability of bribes and red-tape.
Frequently, they had to pay bribes in order to get an appointment.
However, news reports indicate that police forces were more interested in mounting illegal checkpoints and extorting bribes from civilians than in maintaining law and order.
As this involved bribes, naturally the state banned it as illegal.
Other factors include explicit or implicit requirements to give bribes and gifts to, and incompetence of, government functionaries.
Specifically, the costs associated with administrative corruption, namely paying bribes, impose a significant burden on firms.
They were corrupt, accumulated bribes and gifts, and opposed major reforms in the operation of the papacy.
With a mass electorate, on the other hand, politicians seeking re-election are encouraged to promise legislation, not bribes, favours and privileges.
