corruption
Senso (Inglese)
- (countable, uncountable) The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity.
- (countable, uncountable) The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.
- (countable, uncountable) The product of corruption; putrid matter.
- (countable, uncountable) The decomposition of biological matter.
- (countable, uncountable) Unethical administrative or executive practices (in government or business), including bribery (offering or receiving bribes), conflicts of interest, nepotism, embezzlement, and so on.
- (countable, uncountable) The destruction of data by manipulation of parts of it, either by deliberate or accidental human action or by imperfections in storage or transmission media.
- (countable, uncountable) The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct.
- (countable, uncountable) A nonstandard form of a word, expression, or text, especially when resulting from misunderstanding, transcription error, or mishearing. (See a usage note about this sense.)
- (countable, uncountable) Something originally good or pure that has turned evil or impure; a perversion.
Concetti
comportamento delinquenziale
depravamento
sinonimi
illegal character
Traduzioni
Frequenza
Pronunciato come (IPA)
/kəˈɹʌpʃən/
Etimologia (Inglese)
Borrowed from French corruption, from Latin corruptiō, equivalent to corrupt + -ion.
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