A person who accepts a bribe or who is being offered a bribe to do something dishonest or illegal.
From 'bribe' plus '-ee' (a suffix indicating the person who receives an action). This term emerged in English legal and journalistic writing in the 20th century to distinguish the bribe-recipient from the bribe-giver.
Surprisingly, anti-corruption laws sometimes treat the bribee less severely than the briber, because lawmakers recognized that people in positions of power who demand bribes are more morally culpable than those tempted to offer them.
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