payola

noun

1. 买通，贿赂（尤指为非法影响销售）
   the practice of giving or taking payments for doing sth illegal, especially for illegally influencing the sales of a particular product

1. （唱片公司对电台的）商业贿赂
   Payola is the illegal practice of paying radio broadcasters to play certain CDs, so that the CDs will become more popular and therefore make more profits for the record company.

1. This occurred just weeks after Sony BMG had paid a$ 10 million fine for being caught up in a payola scandal.
   而此事发生之前几周，索尼博德曼刚刚因行贿丑闻暴露而被迫缴纳了1000万美元的罚款。
2. Payola is the oil on which the political machine run.
   贿赂是政治机器运转的润滑油。

noun

1. a bribe given to a disc jockey to induce him to promote a particular record