corruptionnoun
uk/kəˈrʌp.ʃən/us/kəˈrʌp.ʃən/corruption noun (BAD BEHAVIOUR)
C1 [ U ] illegal, bad, or dishonest behaviour, especially by people in positions of power:
The film is about a young police officer and his struggle to expose corruption in the force.
Political corruption is widespread throughout the country.
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- The investigation revealed political chicanery and corruption at the highest levels.
- It's a clear case of corruption.
- He caught the public imagination as a crusader against corruption.
- Recent discoveries about corruption have done serious damage to the company's reputation.
- He resigned from the committee in disgust at the corruption.
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Fraud & corruption
- baksheesh
- blackmail
- buy sb off
- cook
- cook the books idiom
- corrupt
- fraudulent accounting
- front for sth
- game-fixing
- get at sb
- graft
- impersonate
- imposture
- perjury
- phishing
- Ponzi scheme
- rort
- shell
- siphon sth off
- suborn
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Lies, lying & hypocrisy
corruption noun (CHANGED WORD)
[ C ] in language, a word whose original form has been changed:
The swear word "bloody" is wrongly thought by some to be a corruption of the words "by our Lady".
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Linguistics: terminology & vocabulary
- acronym
- alphabetic
- Anglicism
- antonym
- archaism
- buzzword
- cognate
- coinage
- defining vocabulary
- denotation
- false friend
- homophone
- loanword
- neologism
- nonsense word/syllable
- so-called
- technobabble
- term
- vocab
- vocabulary
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corruption noun (ON COMPUTER)
[ U ] the fact of information on a computer being changed so that it is wrong and cannot be used:
data corruption
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Computer concepts
- aeroplane mode
- airplane mode
- atomicity
- augmented reality
- back end
- blogosphere
- clone
- cloud
- default to sth
- electronic
- gigabyte
- GUI
- multimedia
- reboot
- template
- tuple
- virtual
- virtually
- web hosting
- what you see is what you get idiom
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