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1. Oxford American Dictionary

   corruption

   • IPA[kəˈrəpSH(ə)n]

   美式

   • n.
     dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power, typically involving bribery；the action of making someone or something morally depraved or the state of being so

   • noun: corruption, plural noun: corruptions

2. • 釋義
   • 相關詞

   n.

   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 dishonesty, dishonest dealings, unscrupulousness, deceit, deception, ... 更多duplicity, double-dealing, fraud, fraudulence, misconduct, lawbreaking, crime, criminality, delinquency, wrongdoing, villainy, bribery, bribing, subornation, venality, graft, extortion, jobbery, profiteering, payola, informalcrookedness, shadiness, sleaze, palm-greasing, malfeasance, misfeasance, archaicknavery, raremalversation反義詞 honesty
   • ▪ the action of making someone or something morally depraved or the state of being so the word “addict” conjures up evil and corruption 同義詞 sin, sinfulness, ungodliness, unrighteousness, profanity, ... 更多impiety, impurity, immorality, depravity, vice, iniquity, turpitude, degeneracy, perversion, pervertedness, debauchery, dissolution, dissoluteness, decadence, profligacy, wantonness, indecency, lasciviousness, lewdness, lechery, wickedness, evil, baseness, vileness反義詞 morality, purity
   • 2. the process by which something, typically a word or expression, is changed from its original use or meaning to one that is 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 alteration, falsification, doctoring, manipulation, manipulating, ... 更多fudging, adulteration, debasement, degradation, abuse, subversion, misrepresentation, misapplication, rarevitiation
   • ▪ the process of causing errors to appear in a computer program or database this procedure creates a temporary file to prevent accidental corruption
   • 3. archaic decay; putrefaction the potato turned black and rotten with corruption

   anti-corruption

   • adj.
     designed to eradicate or prevent dishonest or fraudulent conduct, especially in a political context: an anti-corruption campaign

   Oxford Dictionary

3. • 更多解釋

   corruption

   • IPA[kəˈrʌpʃn]

   英式

   • n.
     dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power, typically involving bribery: the journalist who wants to expose corruption in high places

   Oxford Dictionary