Facilitating payment

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A facilitating payment, facilitation payment,^[1] or grease payment^[2] is a payment to government employees to speed up an administrative process whose outcome is already determined.^[3] Although ethically questionable, it is not considered to be bribery according to the legislation of some states as well as in international anti-bribery conventions.