noun. Payment of a party, especially a disc jockey or radio station, for the promotion of a product or service, such as a commercial musical recording, without making the legally required disclosure of sponsorship.

noun. The money used to make such payment.

noun. 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).

noun. a bribe given to a disc jockey to induce him to promote a particular record

"It costs too much just when we can't even afford everything the government has already bought and comitted to ... it raises the cost of health care ... and it got this far only because of hundreds of millions of dollars in payola to Democratic hold-outs."

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