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

Usage in printed sourcesFrom: 

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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. Ranko Krivokapic:

   The government is creating a (parliamentary) majority under suspicion of political corruption, victories that are not based on the free will of the people cannot last.

2. Ann West:

   There has been much criticism of sporting organizations across the globe recently for a lack of transparency in matters of corruption, anti-doping and member protection, the importance of taking an integrated and co-ordinated approach, and my plan is to have an emphasis on education, is critical to tackling this issue and will be the focus of my new role.

3. Tom Perez:

   Sekulow added. During a lengthy presentation before the Senate on Thursday, Rep. Sylvia Garcia, D-Texas, rehashed corruption allegations Trump has floated against Hunter Bidens and sought to debunk them. The point was to show that there was no legitimate basis for Trump to be seeking an investigation into Hunter Bidens, and the request to Ukraines presidentwas made purely to dirty up a Democratic rival who was polling better than him. WHO ARE THE TRUMP IMPEACHMENT MANAGERS ? MEET PELOSIS HAND-PICKED PROSECUTORS There was no basis for the investigation that the president was pursuing and pushing. None. He was doing it only for his political benefit, Sylvia Garcia said. But the presentation took some Republicans by surprise, and some suggested The House Democrats may have handed them a perfect opportunity to scrutinize how Huner Biden joined the board of a Ukraine energy company, Burisma, in 2014, while Huner Biden father was playing a key role in handling then-President Obamas Ukraine policy. The House Democrats perhaps unintentionally threw Huner Biden under the bus, said Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., said Josh Hawley was surprised by how much time Democrats devoted to trying to debunk any legitimate reason why Trump would want to investigate Huner Biden and Huner Biden and said the House impeachment managers really opened the door for Hunter Bidens to play a central role in the trial and become material witnesses. If were going to call witnesses, [ Democrats ] have made the case very successfully that we need to call Huner Biden and probably Huner Biden, Josh Hawley said Friday. Trump has peddled the highly-contested accusation that the elder Huner Biden pressed for the firing of top Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin to spareBurisma from scrutiny. Ousting Shokin was, in fact, the official position of the U.S. government and its Western allies, including European Union nations and the International Monetary Fund leadership, because Shokin was believed to be incompetent or corrupt himself. Tom Perez, chair of the Democratic National Committee, blasted Republicans on Friday following opening arguments by House managers. The presidents guilt is indisputable and Tom Perez actions are indefensible, the evidence against Trump is overwhelming. And his abuse of power is a clear and present danger to the future of our democracy. For those reasons, it is unconscionable for Senate Republicans to let Trump off the hook with a sham trial. Make no mistake : A trial without documents or witnesses is a cover-up. If Trump is acquitted after he has confessed and suggested hed do it again the Senate will have legitimized foreign interference in our elections and ruled it acceptable for our leaders to extort other countries for personal gain. The former vice president said in December he sees no legal basis to be called because the impeachment case against Trump is about the presidents actions, not Huner Biden or his sons. Huner Biden told reporters that Huner Biden joined the Burisma board without notifying Huner Biden father ; theres no law preventing a vice presidents son from taking international posts, just as Trumps children still advance Huner Biden real estate interests abroad. Ukrainian officials have said they found no wrongdoing in Hunter Bidens service on the board. SENATORS PLAY WITH FIDGET SPINNERS, STRESS BALLS TO PASS TIME DURING IMPEACHMENT Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., said hes seen no evidence against Hunter Bidens and Mark Warner wont second guess the strategy of the House impeachment managers to spend so much time on them in their presentation. Mark Warner, the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Mark Warner viewed The House Democrats move as a chance to counter what they believe the presidents lawyers would put forward. Im anxious to hear any kind of evidentiary facts, other than simply innuendo, Mark Warner said Friday of Trumps defense team. I know weve heard a lot of innuendoes so far. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., has rejected moves to call witnesses, saying it could turn the trial into a circus, and Lindsey Graham has advocated for a speedy trial and Trump acquittal. Still, Lindsey Graham said hes convinced Huner Biden and Hunter Bidens conduct in Ukraine needs to be investigated -- but after the impeachment trial is over. Im going to look at them, Lindsey Graham, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Friday.Are you going to impeach me ? Because somebody should [ investigate ]. Id prefer Senate Judiciary Committee not to be me, Id prefer Senate Judiciary Committee to be somebody like [ Special Counsel Robert ] Mueller [ because ] this is not good foreign policy. This is not good government. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS The House Democrats impeached Trump on two articles : abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. They had three days to present their case to senators. Trumps legal team will get their shot starting Saturday.Sekulow billed their weekend presentation as a.

4. Donald Trump:

   Hillary Clinton’s corruption is on a scale we have never seen before, we must not let Secretary Clinton take Secretary Clinton criminal scheme into the Oval Office.

5. Eric Schmitt:

   The RINO feeds on corruption and is marked by the stripes of cowardice.

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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