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a bribe to keep someone silent about something, esp. to keep the receiver from exposing a scandal.[1700-10]
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hush money — ➔ money * * * hush money UK US noun [U] INFORMAL ► money that is given to someone so that they will not give secret information to other people: »His secretary claims he offered her hush money to keep quiet about the affair … Financial and business terms
Hush money — Hush Hush, n. Stillness; silence; quiet. [R.] It is the hush of night. Byron. [1913 Webster] {Hush money}, money paid to secure silence, or to prevent the disclosure of facts. Swift. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
hush money — I noun blackmail, blood money, bribe, corrupt money, enticement, graft, gratuity, inducement, prize, slush fund, temptation associated concepts: bribery II index blackmail, bribe, graft … Law dictionary
hush money — hush .money n [U] money that is paid to someone not to tell other people about something embarrassing … Dictionary of contemporary English
hush money — hush ,money noun uncount money that is paid so that someone will not tell other people about embarrassing or illegal behavior … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
hush money — money that you pay someone to stop them telling anyone else about something that you want to keep secret. His assistant had been paid hush money to stop him from speaking to the press … New idioms dictionary
hush money — ► NOUN informal ▪ money paid to someone to prevent them from disclosing information … English terms dictionary
hush money — n. money paid to a person to keep him or her from telling something … English World dictionary
hush money — noun a bribe paid to someone to insure that something is kept secret • Hypernyms: ↑bribe, ↑payoff * * * noun [noncount] : money paid so that someone will keep information secret : money that you pay someone to hush something up He s accused of… … Useful english dictionary
hush money — n. money paid to buy someone’s silence. □ They paid enough hush money to silence an army. □ There was some hush money paid to someone in city hall … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
Hush Money — Infobox Film name = Hush Money image size = caption = director = Sidney Lanfield producer = writer = Philip Klein narrator = starring = Joan Bennett Hardie Albright Owen Moore Myrna Loy George Raft music = Glen Knight cinematography = John F.… … Wikipedia
