grease payment (English, noun)
expansion: grease payment (plural grease payments)
Senses:
topics: business
ethics
human-sciences
law
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A bribe or extorted money, usually relatively small in amount, provided to a low-level government official or business person, in order to expedite a business decision, shipment, or other transaction, especially in a country where such payments are not unusual.
tags: US
idiomatic
Forms:
form: grease payments
tags: plural