from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
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.
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noun US 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).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun a bribe given to a disc jockey to induce him to promote a particular record
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Probably pay(off) + -ola, suff.; see crapola.]
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Perhaps Blend of pay and Victrola.
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Apparently other bloggers are more fortunate than I, and are cashing in nicely by offering "reviews" of stuff in exchange for payola from the makers and sellers of said stuff.
Apparently other bloggers are more fortunate than I, and are cashing in nicely by offering "reviews" of stuff in exchange for payola from the makers and sellers of said stuff.
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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