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say it: kur-UHP-shuhn
corruption is a noun meaning "lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain". It carries 6 recorded senses.
lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain
in a state of progressive putrefaction
decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation)
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”
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”
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for corruption come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.