corruption+(noun)

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• corruption — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ endemic, massive, rampant, rife, widespread ▪ Corruption was rife before the election. ▪ gross, serious …   Collocations dictionary

• corruption — corrupt ► ADJECTIVE 1) willing to act dishonestly in return for money or personal gain. 2) evil or morally depraved. 3) (of a text or computer data) made unreliable by errors or alterations. 4) archaic rotten or putrid. ► VERB 1) make corrupt. 2) …   English terms dictionary

• corruption — cor‧rup‧tion [kəˈrʌpʆn] noun [uncountable] 1. LAW the crime of giving or receiving money, gifts, a better job etc in exchange for doing something dishonest or illegal: • He denies twelve counts of corruption. • The Chamber of Deputies voted to… …   Financial and business terms

• corruption — I noun abuse of public trust, act of bribing, act of profiteering, baseness, breach of faith, breach of trust, bribery, complicity, conduct involving graft, corrupt inducement, corruptela, corruptibility, corruptio, crime, criminality, debasement …   Law dictionary

• corruption — noun 1) political corruption Syn: dishonesty, unscrupulousness, double dealing, fraud, fraudulence, misconduct, crime, criminality, wrongdoing; bribery, venality, extortion, profiteering, payola; informal graft, grift, crookedness …   Thesaurus of popular words

• Corruption Perceptions Index — UK US noun [S] (ABBREVIATION CPI) GOVERNMENT, POLITICS, LAW ► a list of the countries of the world showing how much corruption is thought to exist among its public officials and politicians, published by Transparency International …   Financial and business terms

• corruption — noun 1 (U) dishonest, illegal, or immoral behaviour, especially from someone with power: The Chief Executive is being investigated for alleged corruption. 2 (countable usually singular) a changed form of something, for example a word: The word… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• corruption — noun 1) political corruption Syn: dishonesty, unscrupulousness, double dealing, fraud, misconduct, bribery, venality; N.Amer. payola; informal graft, sleaze 2) his fall into corruption Syn: immorality …   Synonyms and antonyms dictionary

• corruption — noun a) 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. It was necessary, by exposing the gross… …   Wiktionary

• corruption — mid 14c., of material things, especially dead bodies, also of the soul, morals, etc., from L. corruptionem (nom. corruptio), noun of action from pp. stem of corrumpere (see CORRUPT (Cf. corrupt)). Of public offices from early 15c.; of language… …   Etymology dictionary

• corruption — noun Date: 14th century 1. a. impairment of integrity, virtue, or moral principle ; depravity b. decay, decomposition c. inducement to wrong by improper or unlawful means (as …   New Collegiate Dictionary