lubrication payment (English, noun)
expansion: lubrication payment (plural lubrication payments)
Senses:
topics: business
ethics
human-sciences
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: euphemistic
idiomatic
Forms:
form: lubrication payments
tags: plural