Baksheesh in a sentence as a noun

But if it relies on your patent as prior art, I still have to cough up the baksheesh.

Third world baksheesh is certainly less injurious to progress.

So this isn't about the dangers of unregulated taxi services, it's just about a little baksheesh.

My friend and I was approached by a security guard while in queue to check in at the airport - he wanted a bribe to let us board with our carry-on, "baksheesh".

They knew what he was; and those who participated in the game did so for the same reason they haggled at shops or gave baksheesh to beggars; it was in the unwritten laws of Baedeker land.

He was taking the baksheesh from Intel at exactly the same time he was recommending that Apple be wound up and liquidated for lack of a viable business model.

" Its landscape is one of inanimate monuments and buildings; near-inanimate barmen, taxi-drivers, bellhops, guides: there to do any bidding, to various degrees of efficiency, on receipt of the recommended baksheesh, pourboire, mancia, tip.

They had apps but the quality was low and prior to the Apple App Store’s standard terms discoverability was basically paying baksheesh to the the carriers – our clients were quoted a minimum of $50k per carrier just to be in the store, scaling up based on your perceived ability to pay.

Baksheesh definitions

noun

a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter)

See also: gratuity pourboire bakshish bakshis backsheesh