HUSH MONEY Synonyms

• something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury)

• (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors

• the act of compensating for service or loss or injury

• the final payment of a debt

• payment made to a person in a position of trust to corrupt his judgment

• the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property

• a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing

• a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government

• a community of people smaller than a town

• a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it

• the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies

• something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making

• an area where a group of families live together

• termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities

• a thick fatty oil (especially one used to lubricate machinery)

• anything regarded as making something unclean

• lubricate with grease