Grease Payment

Croatian translation: \"podmazivanje\" (mito)

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English term or phrase:Grease Payment
Croatian translation:\"podmazivanje\" (mito)
Entered by: Darko Kolega

06:52 May 25, 2011
English to Croatian translations [PRO]
Law/Patents - Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc. / mito i korupcija
English term or phrase: Grease Payment
A ban on any form of Facilitation (or “Grease”) Payment
naslov u dokumentu o borbi protiv mita i korupcije u poslovnom svijetu

Facilitation Payments (neslužbena plaćanja)
Grease?? postoji li neki poznati termin ili je slobodan....
Darko Kolega
Croatia
Local time: 14:57
mito
Explanation:
mito/podmićivanje

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/grease_payment

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Note added at 11 mins (2011-05-25 07:04:10 GMT)
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(chiefly US, idiomatic, business, law, ethics) A bribe or extorted money, usually relatively small in amount, provided to a low-level government official or business person, in order to expedite a business decision, shipment, or other transaction, especially in a country where such payments are not unusual
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/grease_payment
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Sasa Kalcik
Croatia
Local time: 14:57
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grease payment
mito


Explanation:
mito/podmićivanje

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/grease_payment

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Note added at 11 mins (2011-05-25 07:04:10 GMT)
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(chiefly US, idiomatic, business, law, ethics) A bribe or extorted money, usually relatively small in amount, provided to a low-level government official or business person, in order to expedite a business decision, shipment, or other transaction, especially in a country where such payments are not unusual
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/grease_payment


Sasa Kalcik
Croatia
Local time: 14:57
Native speaker of: Native in CroatianCroatian, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 8

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Martina Pokupec (X)
17 mins
  -> merci!

agree  Dragana Samardžijević: Facilitation payments, also known as "expediting payments" or "grease payments," are bribes paid to induce foreign officials to perform routine functions they are otherwise obligated to perform. http://www.lexisnexis.com/community/corpsec/blogs/corporatea
1 hr
  -> hvala puno na ovom lijepom argumentu!

agree  Gordana Podvezanec
2 hrs
  -> hvala kolegice Gordana

agree  sazo
1 day 11 hrs
  -> hvala!:)

agree  PeregrineFalcon
2 days 3 hrs
  -> hvala!:)
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