payola



payola

(peˈolə)
n. a bribe. (Originally a bribe paid to a disk jockey by record producers to get extra attention for their records.) The announcer was fired for taking payola.

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Paulina[pɔ:'li:nə]
LommÁN-Irish
Hei&Eth;RÚN-Norse Mythology, Icelandic
LuÍSaloo-EE-zəPortuguese
Ru-Chinese
Nikol-Czech, Bulgarian