grease one's palms
verbverified·updated Jun 3, 2026
make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence
MWE
Classifications
Cognitive
Understand75%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Responsibility
Unclassified—trigger_default_value
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Automation
Unclassified—trigger_default_value
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Variants
- synonym
- corrupt
- pasttense
- greased one's palms
- presentparticiple
- greasing one's palms
- thirdpersonsingular
- greases one's palms
- pastparticiple
- greased one's palms