Definitions for corruption
kəˈrʌp ʃəncor·rup·tion

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.5 / 8 votes

1. corruptness, corruptionnoun

   lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain

2. putrescence, putridness, rottenness, corruptionnoun

   in a state of progressive putrefaction

3. corruptionnoun

   decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation)

4. corruption, degeneracy, depravation, depravity, putrefactionnoun

   moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles

   "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"; "its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity"; "Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction"

5. corruption, subversionnoun

   destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity

   "corruption of a minor"; "the big city's subversion of rural innocence"

6. corruptionnoun

   inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by commiting a felony)

   "he was held on charges of corruption and racketeering"

WiktionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. corruptionnoun

   The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity; depravity; wickedness; impurity; bribery.

2. corruptionnoun

   The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.

3. corruptionnoun

   The product of corruption; putrid matter.

4. corruptionnoun

   The decomposition of biological matter.

5. corruptionnoun

   The destruction of data by manipulation of parts of it, either by deliberate or accidental human action or by imperfections in storage or transmission media.

6. corruptionnoun

   The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct; as, a corruption of style; corruption in language.

7. corruptionnoun

   A debased or nonstandard form of a word, expression, or text, resulting from misunderstanding, transcription error, mishearing, etc.

8. corruptionnoun

   Something that is evil but is supposed to be good.

   The inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a subject of very universal inquiry; for corruption is a reciprocal to generation. uE000130107uE001 .

9. Etymology: From corruption, from corruptio

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Corruptionnoun

   Etymology: corruptio, Lat.

   1. The principle by which bodies tend to the separation of their parts.2. Wickedness; perversion of principles; loss of integrity.

   Precepts of morality, besides the natural corruption of our tempers, which makes us averse to them, are so abstracted from ideas of sense, that they seldom get an opportunity for descriptions and images. Joseph Addison, Essay on the Georgicks.

   Amidst corruption, luxury and rage,
   Still leave some ancient virtue’s to our age. Alexander Pope.

   3. Putrescence.

   The wise contriver, on his end intent,
   Careful this fatal errour to prevent,
   And keep the waters from corruption free,
   Mix’d them with salt, and season’d all the sea. Richard Blackmore.

   4. Matter or pus in a sore.5. The means by which any thing is vitiated; depravation.

   After my death I wish no other herald,
   No other speaker of my living actions,
   To keep mine honour from corruption,
   But such an honest chronicler as Griffith. William Shakespeare, Hen. VIII.

   The region hath by conquest, and corruption of other languages, received new and differing names. Walter Raleigh, History.

   All those four kinds of corruption are very common in their language; for which reasons the Greek tongue is become much altered. Edward Brerewood, on Languages.

   6. [In law.]An infection growing to a man attainted of felony or treason, and to his issue: for as he loseth all to the prince, or other lord of the see, so his issue cannot be heir to him, or to any other ancestor, of whom they might have claimed by him; and if he were noble, or a gentleman, he and his children are made ignoble and ungentle, in respect of the father. John Cowell

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Corruption

   Corruption is a form of dishonesty or a criminal offense which is undertaken by a person or an organization which is entrusted in a position of authority, in order to acquire illicit benefits or abuse power for one's personal gain. Corruption may involve many activities which include bribery, influence peddling and the embezzlement and it may also involve practices which are legal in many countries. Political corruption occurs when an office-holder or other governmental employee acts with an official capacity for personal gain. Corruption is most common in kleptocracies, oligarchies, narco-states, and mafia states.Corruption and crime are endemic sociological occurrences which appear with regular frequency in virtually all countries on a global scale in varying degrees and proportions. Each individual nation allocates domestic resources for the control and regulation of corruption and the deterrence of crime. Strategies which are undertaken in order to counter corruption are often summarized under the umbrella term anti-corruption. Additionally, global initiatives like the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 16 also have a targeted goal which is supposed to substantially reduce corruption in all of its forms.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. corruption

   Corruption is the abuse of entrusted power or position for personal gain or advantage. This unethical behavior may involve a range of actions like bribery, fraud, nepotism, embezzlement, and graft. Corruption can occur in any sector, whether it be public, private, or non-profit, and is considered illegal and detrimental to the functioning of a society or organization.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 2 votes

1. Corruptionnoun

   the act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration

2. Corruptionnoun

   the product of corruption; putrid matter

3. Corruptionnoun

   the act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity; depravity; wickedness; impurity; bribery

4. Corruptionnoun

   the act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct; as, a corruption of style; corruption in language

WikidataRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Corruption

   Corruption or bastardisation are terms popularly used to refer to certain changes in language which originate from human error or alleged prescriptively incorrect usage. Descriptive linguistics typically avoids using these negative terms, since from a scientific point of view such changes are neither good nor bad. Words are commonly said to be "corrupted" or "bastardized" if they undergo a change in spelling or pronunciation when borrowed from one language to another. This example illustrates that normal phonological developments can be labeled by some as "corruption", a position which demands that any language change from a previous state be thus labeled. In this view, English would be a "corruption" of Proto-Germanic, the Romance languages would be "corruptions" of Latin, and Latin would ultimately be a "corruption" of Proto-Indo-European. Language corruption may refer to a change in words, as described above, or to a deviation from the so-called "purity" of standard language. For example, the split infinitive has long been disputed as either a corruption or norm of the English language, even though the concept of the English infinitive containing the preposition "to" is challenged by usage with modals which precludes employing to. A language can also come to be regarded as having become "corrupted" if it has acquired a large vocabulary from other languages. This terminology is highly frowned upon by most academic linguists, as the adoption of loan words is a normal process which has no effect on the functionality of the language. Labeling a language as "corrupted" is a subjective value judgement which often leads to linguistic discrimination.

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1. corruption

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Matched Categories

1. • Decay
   • Degradation
   • Dishonesty
   • Immorality
   • Inducement
   • Putrefaction

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'corruption' in Nouns Frequency: #2364

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How to pronounce corruption?

1. Alex

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   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

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   Indian

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   Indian

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   US English

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   British

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How to say corruption in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of corruption in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of corruption in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of corruption in a Sentence

1. Abraham Lincoln:

   Corporations have been enthroned .... An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people... until wealth is aggregated in a few hands ... and the Republic is destroyed.

2. Laura Ingraham:

   They have always been planning to run Hillary as president so the idea of Hillary being secretary of state and the Clinton Foundation getting donations from groups and countries including those in the Middle East that had a vested interest in turning policy a certain way, that goes to the very heart of the public’s concern about corruption in government.

3. Marilyn Mosby:

   That accountability ultimately led to reform, and because of that reform, we had a spotlight on the entrenched police corruption in one of the largest police agencies in the country.

4. Kurt Volker:

   In hindsight, I now understand that others saw the idea of investigating possible corruption involving the Ukrainian company,' Burisma,' as equivalent to investigating former Vice President Hunter Biden, i saw them as very different -- the former being appropriate and unremarkable, the latter being unacceptable.

5. Ron Galperin:

   No one indicted for public corruption and suspended by the City Council should receive a taxpayer-funded salary.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=corruption
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Corruption
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=corruption
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/corruption
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=corruption
8. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=corruption