suborn
C2CEFR level
90/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
Law verb
To induce a person, especially by bribery, to commit an unlawful act such as giving false testimony.
He was accused of attempting to suborn a witness into retracting her statement.
Business verb
To induce someone by bribery or coercion to commit an unlawful act, especially perjury.
Prosecutors alleged the executive had tried to suborn a junior accountant into backdating the contracts.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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