📚 noun • entry_id 31176
hush money
Meanings (ES + gloss)
coima para acallar • untada por el silencio
A bribe to maintain secrecy (to prevent bad publicity or to prevent the discovery of a crime).
He holds, I am given to understand, a small official appointment in the colony. If it were known that he had received hush money, he would be ruined.
The scandal was even greater when it was announced that hush money had been paid to keep the faulty products unannounced.
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