kickback
Example Sentences
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The fair’s former director of marketing pleaded no contest in June to taking $40,000 in kickbacks to award a security contract at the fair.
From Los Angeles Times
“Several larger families left Smart Therapy after being offered larger kickbacks by other autism centers.”
She employed relatives with no formal education and recruited parents to enroll their non-autistic kids in her therapy sessions by paying them kickbacks of up to $1,500 a month per child.
The investigation alleged that Ukrainian officials pressured companies to pay kickbacks for contracts with the state nuclear-energy company.
Participants allegedly capitalized on a martial-law ban on lawsuits against important state entities by demanding kickbacks before contractors received payment for their work.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
