payola是什么意思,payola怎么读


payola基本信息

读法:英 [peɪ"əʊlə] 美 [pe"olə]

释义:

  • n. 贿赂
  • 使用频率:★

    星级词汇:★

    英英释义

    Noun:

  • a bribe given to a disc jockey to induce him to promote a particular record
  • 中英词源

    payola 买通,贿赂

    来自pay,支付,-ola,商品化后缀,衍生自pianola.引申词义买通,贿赂。

    payola (n.)
    "graft" (especially to disc jockeys from record companies to play their music), 1938 (in a "Variety" headline), from pay off "bribery" (underworld slang from 1930) + ending from Victrola, etc. (see pianola). Compare also plugola (1959), from plug (n.) in the advertising sense.

    词态变化

    权威造句

    1. Payola is the oil on which the political machine runs.
    贿赂是政治机器运转的润滑油.

    来自辞典例句

    2. The announcer was fired for taking payola.
    播音员因接受贿赂而被解雇了.

    来自互联网

    3. I am the program director of my radio station, so where"s my payola?
    我是广播电台的节目导演, 那我的贿赂在哪?

    来自互联网

    近反义词

  • payment 支付
  • bribe 贿赂
  • bribery 受贿
  • inducement 诱因
  • graft 嫁接
  • payoff 收益
  • fix 使 ... 固定
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