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Re: monkey business

Originally Posted by
keannu
I'm kind of frustrated after I came to know an example of my favorite vocabulary book is wrong, and I also doubt this sentence in the same book might be wrong as well.
ex101) She was sent to prison for trying to corrupt a policeman (with money).
This "corrupt" is used as the meaning of "buy someone to make him do what one wants by bribing him", but I'm not sure if it's a correct sentence.
I agree, "bribe" would be better in this sentence. Really the person doing the bribing is corrupt...
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