conscience money

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   payment made voluntarily to reduce guilt over dishonest dealings

   Broaderpayment

Questions about conscience money

What does conscience money mean?

conscience money means "payment made voluntarily to reduce guilt over dishonest dealings".

Is conscience money a common word?

conscience money is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.