made co is incorrectly written, and should be written as I "bribery" to being its meaning: In law, particularly criminal law, bribery is a crime that consists of bribe to an authority or a public official offering a gift or a certain amount of money to, bypass, or omit an act inherent in his position. The person offering the bribe incurs the crime of bribery for giving and official who accepts the bribe incurred for receiving bribery.