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Definition of influence peddling in English: influence peddlingnoun mass nounNorth American The use of position or political influence on someone's behalf in exchange for money or favours. 〈北美〉权钱交易，以权谋利（利用地位或政治权势谋取钱财或获取特殊照顾） Example sentencesExamples - But political watchdog groups are harshly critical of the arrangement, saying it smacks of influence peddling in Washington.
- But it eventually begins to dawn on him that sports is out of control, with too much money, sex, drugs, influence peddling, and politics.
- The US also sees obstacles in the web of personal relations and influence peddling necessary to get business done.
- But the media has long since been corrupted by a far more sophisticated, legal system of payola and influence peddling.
- Did the livelihood of the richest 10% of the people improve disproportionately under the leadership of this person due to influence peddling?
- It's also about an apparent culture of influence peddling and abuse of power in state government.
- An appointed body, the theory went, would be insulated from influence peddling, and thus better equipped than politicians to safeguard the public.
- Widespread graft and influence peddling among government officials are hampering economic development.
- Those people are said to have achieved their positions through a combination of hard work, influence peddling, and corruption.
- Ironically, however, they failed to democratize their parties due to closed-door policy making, influence peddling and eventual corruption after they gained power.
- Quite apart from whether political influence peddling distorts criminal policy, does such peddling weaken the case for privatization?
- Political influence peddling is a universal phenomenon, whether it is in a developed or developing world.
- As long as there are institutions with lots of money and an interest in seeking rents and favors, there will be corruption, and more mundane influence peddling.
- This doesn't excuse their influence peddling.
- What can be done about such corruption and influence peddling?
- Anyone who made money by drugs, cronyism, influence peddling with past regimes at the expense of Bahamians would be dispossessed and their fortunes returned to the Bahamian treasury.
- This will reduce conflicts of interest, and influence peddling,’ he says.
- As the state has grown, corruption, black marketeering and influence peddling have proliferated.
- Here is the former head of the European Development Bank under investigation for influence peddling.
- Rather, behind the vague slogan of ‘reform,’ they focused on such issues as political corruption and influence peddling in Washington.
Derivativesnoun North American He really was the first of the modern influence peddlers. Example sentencesExamples - It will have to clear out the influence peddlers, corporate lobbyists, spin-doctors and fund-raisers and return to first principles.
- No candidate is more scornful of the Washington insider class of lobbyists and influence peddlers.
- ‘And while I'm doing that, I will crack down on wasteful and abusive officials and influence peddlers,’ she said.
- Nearly once a month influence peddlers from different worlds gather to gossip, talk business, and schmooze at his Hollywood Hills home.
Definition of influence peddling in US English: influence peddlingnounˈinflo͝oəns ˈpedliNGˈɪnflʊəns ˈpɛdlɪŋ North American The use of position or political influence on someone's behalf in exchange for money or favors. 〈北美〉权钱交易，以权谋利（利用地位或政治权势谋取钱财或获取特殊照顾） Example sentencesExamples - As long as there are institutions with lots of money and an interest in seeking rents and favors, there will be corruption, and more mundane influence peddling.
- Anyone who made money by drugs, cronyism, influence peddling with past regimes at the expense of Bahamians would be dispossessed and their fortunes returned to the Bahamian treasury.
- Here is the former head of the European Development Bank under investigation for influence peddling.
- Quite apart from whether political influence peddling distorts criminal policy, does such peddling weaken the case for privatization?
- An appointed body, the theory went, would be insulated from influence peddling, and thus better equipped than politicians to safeguard the public.
- Ironically, however, they failed to democratize their parties due to closed-door policy making, influence peddling and eventual corruption after they gained power.
- Widespread graft and influence peddling among government officials are hampering economic development.
- Those people are said to have achieved their positions through a combination of hard work, influence peddling, and corruption.
- As the state has grown, corruption, black marketeering and influence peddling have proliferated.
- It's also about an apparent culture of influence peddling and abuse of power in state government.
- This will reduce conflicts of interest, and influence peddling,’ he says.
- Did the livelihood of the richest 10% of the people improve disproportionately under the leadership of this person due to influence peddling?
- Political influence peddling is a universal phenomenon, whether it is in a developed or developing world.
- But the media has long since been corrupted by a far more sophisticated, legal system of payola and influence peddling.
- This doesn't excuse their influence peddling.
- But it eventually begins to dawn on him that sports is out of control, with too much money, sex, drugs, influence peddling, and politics.
- What can be done about such corruption and influence peddling?
- But political watchdog groups are harshly critical of the arrangement, saying it smacks of influence peddling in Washington.
- Rather, behind the vague slogan of ‘reform,’ they focused on such issues as political corruption and influence peddling in Washington.
- The US also sees obstacles in the web of personal relations and influence peddling necessary to get business done.
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