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a bribe — usually paid by a seller to a purchasing agent or other decision maker

We learned that our purchasing agent was accepting kickbacks.

Considering Simpson's imagination, I'd bet on the standard kickbacks, bribes, and graft."
J.D. Robb -- Naked in Death
This time the kickback doesn't startle him as much, and the bullet nicks the top of the target.
Veronica Roth -- Allegiant
The kickback of the rifle knocks him off balance, his foot slips, and he falls straight down.
Rick Yancey -- The 5th Wave
Taxes starting low and handled painlessly by automatic checkoff and through kickback revenues from grain shipments.
Robert A. Heinlein -- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
No kickbacks this time but rental fees paid for equipment that did not, in fact, exist.
Robert Cormier -- I Am the Cheese
They get kickbacks on government contracts from friends or the companies they award them to.
Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala
He insisted on kickbacks from plumbing, heating, or painting contractors with whom the Commissioner had always been cronies, and so made enemies.
Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
Pillsbury and his friends, no doubt, picked up some nice change as kickback from J. H. Moore, and forgot about the whole business.
Robert Penn Warren -- All the King's Men
I upped my kickback fee with those two drugstores.
Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
It is perfectly legal under federal law for a fast food chain to take kickbacks (known as "rebates") from its suppliers, to open a new restaurant next door to an existing franchisee, and to evict a franchisee without giving cause or paying any compensation.
Eric Schlosser -- Fast Food Nation
Duffy did that, for he had been pulling all along for such an arrangement, and I suppose that he must have got some sort of private kickback or sweetening from Larson.
Robert Penn Warren -- All the King's Men
He won the "Small City Reporter of the Year" award, presented annually by the Associated Press, for a series of stories involving corruption in Blount—an official in the Public Works Department involved in kickbacks connected with purchases of snowplows and trucks.
Robert Cormier -- I Am the Cheese

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