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Значения термина baksheesh на английском

португальский
gorjeta
испанский
baksheesh

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

gorjeta
Синонимы
Examples for "tip"
Examples for "tip"
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Under that plan, the Victorian state government would also tip in money.
Reuters
2
Interventions: A 200-W, cooled-tip RF probe system was used for all cases.
Pubmed
3
Federal agents started investigating the business after an anonymous tip last year.
The Guardian
4
The refugee figures for Europe are just the tip of the iceberg.
Reuters
5
Wait about 15 minutes, during which time the shadow tip will move.
Survive!: essential skills and tactics to get you out of anywher...
1
Fifteen copecks was a liberal gratuity, and twenty bordered on the munificent.
Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar...
2
You may tip in cash or add a gratuity to your card.
The Irish Times
3
After paying a small gratuity, they went on to the next shrine.
Buddhism and Buddhists in China
4
With these instructions, and a very small gratuity, the Captain left me.
Barry Lyndon
5
Romney was obliged to be content with a gratuity of twenty-five guineas.
Art in England: Notes and Studies
1
He is wide-awake and obsequious enough, however, at backsheesh-time in the morning.
Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II / From Teheran To Yoko...
2
Give backsheesh with kind face, and not send poor Arab to Assouan.
The Rosary
3
I contented myself with giving him backsheesh, while my companion photographed him.
As Seen By Me
4
Give good backsheesh, and not sit down halfway and say: 'No top'!
The Rosary
5
It is like a three-tailed Pasha grumbling about an unsatisfactory backsheesh.
The Book of Snobs
1
Nilratan spoke to the peons: "There has been no occasion for bakshish; you shan't have it."
The Hungry Stones, and Other Stories
2
The peons, grinning as before, answered: "The Babu-Sahib went to see the Magistrate-sowe have come for bakshish."
The Hungry Stones, and Other Stories
3
They rowed hard when the course was clear, encouraged by promises of liberal bakshish made by their employer at Desmond's prompting.
In Clive's Command: A Story of the Fight for India
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The soldiers behaved most helpfully and the brave and bold Jabberi had not yet once mentioned bakshish in our hearing and were most polite.
Southern Arabia
5
The term meant the U.S. might have to tolerate the inevitable "bakshish," the small cost-of-doing-business bribes that were part of Afghan culture.
Obama's wars
1
We offer you five francs, and this includes a franc pourboire.
The Lion and the Mouse; a Story of an American Life
2
He examined the piece and demanded a pourboire.
The Old Wives' Tale
3
No doubt it is a pourboire he wants.
The Golden Silence
4
For fifteen francs, plus always the pourboire, I will take you to Barcy, which was bombarded and burnt.
Over There: War Scenes on the Western Front
5
Then to Jefferson she added: "Give him a franc for a pourboire-thatmakes five francs altogether."
The Lion and the Mouse; a Story of an American Life
Использование термина baksheesh на английском
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To step off the coach was to run the baksheesh gauntlet.
The Guardian
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As long as they got their baksheesh, they simply didn't care what happened there.
Torch of Freedom
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From internal evidence it is not likely that it was made for baksheesh.]
The Religions of India / Handbooks on the History of Religions, ...
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It was general practice to pay baksheesh for objects found, in addition to the daily wage.
Land of marvels
5
The crowd smiled now and began scrambling for the baksheesh, and so they got through in peace.
His Hour
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Upon the payment of additional baksheesh they agreed to carry the coffin up the hill to our house.
A river in the sky
7
Besides, in every country there are passport officers who are amenable to a little baksheesh! And he grinned.
Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo
8
You have earned much baksheesh.
A river in the sky
9
We never get no baksheesh.
Broken Homes
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The consensus of the baksheesh and the political assassination is replaced, ever so gradually, by the dissension of the market place.
After the Rain : how the West lost the East
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In common with the rest of the world I had heard of baksheesh, but until then I never understood its magic power.
The Making Of A Novelist / An Experiment In Autobiography
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Accordingly he obeyed any summons from me with great alacrity, knowing that the interview would terminate with a "baksheesh" (present).
The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile, And Explorations of...
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By dint of baksheesh they persuaded the photographer to develop their films there and then, and that same evening they had six prints.
The Pit Prop Syndicate
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The workmen finished nailing the coffin together and were persuaded, by the offer of extra baksheesh, to put the dead man into it.
A river in the sky
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The word was "baksheesh." It was regarded, not as payment for services actual or potential, but as a present from one equal to another.
A river in the sky
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An acknowledged £60,000 in political baksheesh during 1989 has made the opposition parties wonder how much more the Minister might have received.
The Irish Times
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gorjeta
испанский
baksheesh
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