grease one's palms

What does grease one's palms mean?

grease one's palms means "make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence".

What is another word for grease one's palms?

Close synonyms include bribe, corrupt, buy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is grease one's palms a common word?

grease one's palms 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for grease one's palms come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.