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corruption
- IPA[kəˈrʌpʃn]
英式
- dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power, typically involving bribery;the action or effect of making someone or something morally depraved
noun: corruption, plural noun: corruptions
- 釋義
名詞
- 1. dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power, typically involving bribery the journalist who wants to expose corruption in high places 同義詞 反義詞
- ▪ the action or effect of making someone or something morally depraved the corruption of youth was a powerful motif the word ‘addict’ conjures up evil and corruption 同義詞 反義詞
- 2. the process by which a word or expression is changed from its original state to one regarded as erroneous or debased a record of a word's corruption the term ‘hobgoblin’ is thought to be a corruption of ‘Robgoblin’ 同義詞
- ▪ the process by which a computer database or program becomes debased by alteration or the introduction of errors this procedure creates a temporary file to prevent accidental corruption
- 3. archaic the process of decay; putrefaction the potato turned black and rotten with corruption