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voiteluraha — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • graft noun A piece of living tissue, skin, or plant shoot transplanted onto or into another body or plant to grow there.

Senses

voiteluraha is used for these senses in English:

  • grease payment (chiefly, US, idiomatic, business, legal, ethics) A bribe or extorted money, usually relatively small in amount, provided to a low-level government official or business person, in order to expedite a business decision, shipment, or other transaction, especially in a country where such payments are not unusual.
  • lubrication payment (idiomatic, business, ethics, euphemism) A bribe or extorted money, usually relatively small in amount, provided to a low-level government official or business person, in order to expedite a business decision, shipment, or other transaction, especially in a country where such payments are not unusual.

graft — full definition

  1. noun A piece of living tissue, skin, or plant shoot transplanted onto or into another body or plant to grow there.
  2. verb To transplant living tissue or a plant shoot onto another body or plant.
  3. noun Dishonest profit gained through abuse of power, especially in politics or business.
  4. noun Hard work, especially informal British usage for effort or labor.

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