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Definition: Payola |
PayolaNoun1. A bribe given to a disc jockey to induce him to promote a particular record. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A number of parties, including the RIAA have made a joint statement regarding current industry practices that have raised concerns about payola. The name of the company Clear Channel Communications has appeared in a number of reports citing concerns about industry practices.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Payola."
| "Payola" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Payola" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
payola | 40 |
payola scandal | 4 |
kennedy payola | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "payola"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | рушвет (boodle, bribe, douceur, graft, kickback, oil, payoff, swag, sweetener, vail), подкуп (boodle, bribe, drop, fix, graft, grease, hush money, oil, palm grease, palm oil, payoff, refresher, subornation, sugarplum, sweetener, vail). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | schmiergeld (bribe, bribemoney, graft). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | שוח" (bribe, bribery, graft, sop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | megvesztegetés (bribe, corruption, dash, greasing, subornation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | bustarella (boodle, bribe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ayolapay rãsplatã (bestowal, desert, guerdon, payment, price, prize, recompense, requital, retribution, return, reward, wage). (various references) взятка (backhander, baksheesh, boodle, bribe, cumshaw, douceur, fix, golden key, graft, palm grease, palm oil, payoff, rake off, silver key, sop). (various references) podmićivanje (bribery, fix, subornation). (various references) soborno (backhander, bakhsheesh, baksheesh, boodle, bribe, bribery, palm greasing), coima (concubine). (various references) muta (backhander, bribe, corrupt, dash, fix). (various references) rüşvet (backhander, boodle, bribe, bribery, corruption, douceur, graft, inducement, kickback, palm grease, palm oil, payoff, pie, sop). (various references) хабар (boodle, bribe, brokage, douceur, gratification, gratuity, rake off, sop, sugarplum, swag), оплата (defrayal, defrayment, render). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "payola": payolas. (additional references) | |
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"Payola" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Apolda, Layolle, Pajoca, pakora, palolo, pamola, paole, Pavol, Pavolva, Paylor, Payo, Pesola, pianola, Playplax, Pyrola, tavola. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "payola" (pronounced pā'ō"lu) |
| 3 | -ō" l u | Ayatollah, Bola, canola, Cola, granola, Mola, pergola, Sola, Viola. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-l-o-p-y" | |
-1 letter: playa. | |
-2 letters: opal, paly, play, ploy, poly. | |
-3 letters: aal, ala, alp, lap, lay, lop, pal, pay, ply, pol, pya, yap. | |
-4 letters: aa, al, ay, la, lo, op, oy, pa, ya, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-l-o-p-y" | |
+1 letter: payload, payolas. | |
+2 letters: payloads, polygala. | |
+3 letters: allopatry, amblyopia, placatory, polyantha, polygalas, portrayal, propylaea. | |
+4 letters: amblyopias, amyloplast, apocalypse, apocryphal, apophyseal, approvably, comparably, hyaloplasm, hypoplasia, laparotomy, lymphomata, mycoplasma, nyctalopia, pardonably, paroxysmal, pastorally, plasmogamy, polyanthas, polyphagia, portrayals, synaloepha. | |
+5 letters: acropetally, allelopathy, amyloplasts, angioplasty, apocalypses, apocalyptic, applicatory, autocephaly, calypsonian, campanology, capaciously, cladophylla, coplanarity, cyclopaedia, explanatory, hyaloplasms, hypokalemia, hypoplasias, hypothalami, laparoscopy, mycoplasmal, mycoplasmas, nyctalopias, paleobotany, paleography, paramountly, parfocality, parochially, planography, plantocracy, polyphagias, postnatally, prosaically, protogalaxy, rapaciously, synaloephas. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 61 79 6F 6C 61 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .- -.--. --- .-.. .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100001 01111001 01101111 01101100 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P a y o l a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0061 0079 006F 006C 0061 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)506791817867 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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