payola



payola

(peˈolə)
n. a bribe. (Originally a bribe paid to a disk jockey by record producers to get extra attention for their records.) The announcer was fired for taking payola.

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Raquelrah-KEL (Spanish)Spanish, Portuguese, English
Manolamah-NO-lahSpanish
Orlagh-Irish
LilliLI-lee (German), LEEL-lee (Finnish)German, Finnish
UrŠKa-Slovene
Peters['pi:təz]