1 [U] dishonest or illegal behaviour, especially of people in authority:
allegations of bribery and corruption * The new district attorney has promised to fight police corruption.
2 [U] the act or effect of making sb change from moral to immoral standards of behaviour:
He claimed that sex and violence on TV led to the corruption of young people.
3 [C,usually sing.] the form of a word or phrase that has become changed from its original form in some way:
The word 'holiday' is a corruption of 'holy day'.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for corruption is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is corruption a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, corruption is tagged as noun.
Does corruption appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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