Usually means: Illegal payment for radio play.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. payola: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. payola: Merriam-Webster
  3. payola: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. payola: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. payola: Collins English Dictionary
  6. payola: Vocabulary.com
  7. Payola, payola: Wordnik
  8. payola: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. payola: Wiktionary
  10. payola: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. payola: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. payola: Dictionary.com
  13. payola: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Payola (Desaparecidos album), Payola (The Cribs album), Payola (disambiguation), Payola: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. payola: Rhymezone
  16. payola: FreeDictionary.org
  17. payola: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. payola: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. payola: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Payola: Radio Programming and Production

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. payola: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See payolas as well.)

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noun:  (US, Philippines) A bribe given in exchange for a favor, such as one given in exchange for the promotion of goods or services (originally one given to a disk jockey to play a record).

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