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grease one's palms

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make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence

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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

Framework definitions

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make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence

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