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corruption

 
Noun corruption has 6 senses
  1. corruptness, corruption - lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain
    --1 is a kind of dishonesty
    --1 has particulars: infection; venality; jobbery
  2. putrescence, putridness, rottenness, corruption - in a state of progressive putrefaction
    --2 is a kind of putrefaction, rot
  3. corruption - decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation)
    --3 is a kind of
    decay
  4. corruption, degeneracy, depravity - 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"
    --4 is a kind of immorality
  5. corruption, subversion - 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"
    --5 is a kind of degradation, debasement
    Derived form: verb corrupt1
  6. corruption - 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"
    --6 is a kind of
    inducement, inducing
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