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tiền cà phê

bribe
Noun
bribe
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2 senses 2 Components
Meaning
2 senses
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Sense 1 Noun
bribe Discourse & LogicTheme

Coffee money is a slang term used to describe a small bribe given to an official to speed things up.

vi Họ phải đưa một ít tiền cà phê để lấy giấy tờ nhanh hơn.

en They had to give a small bribe to get the documents faster.

Sense 2 Noun
money for coffee

Money set aside for buying or paying for coffee.

Parts
tiền / cà phê / 前袈批
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Components

Components

tiền cà phê
Chinese characters Estimated from syllable mapping
Representative candidate
前袈批
Candidates by syllable
tiền 前 cà 袈（鎶 / 𣘁） phê 批
Bold marks a representative candidate assembled from per-syllable character mappings. Parentheses show other candidates for the same syllable. It is not necessarily a source-aligned spelling for the whole word.
Use
tiền lương / tiền bạc / tiền mặt / tiền vệ …
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tiền (money) — words using
cà phê (coffee) — words using
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