握にぎらせる

ichidan verb

let someone hold; bribe by slipping money into someone's hand

Causative of 握る. Used literally for letting someone grasp something, and idiomatically for secretly giving money as a bribe. The bribery sense is common in political or shady contexts.

• 子こ供どもにハンドルを握にぎらせてはいけない。

  You must not let a child hold the steering wheel.

• 彼かれは役やく人にんに札さつ束たばを握にぎらせた。