Corruption | Mean of corruption in English Dictionary

/kəˈrʌpʃən/

• Noun
• dishonest or illegal behavior especially by powerful people (such as government officials or police officers)
1. There are rumors of widespread corruption in the city government.
• the act of corrupting someone or something
1. the mafia's corruption of public officials
2. corruption of the English language
3. computer software that is supposed to prevent the corruption of files
4. database corruption
5. the corruption of a text
6. file corruptions
• something that has been changed from its original form
1. The phrase “an apron” is a corruption of the original English phrase “a napron.”