Usually means: Abuse of power for gain.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word corruption:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. corruption: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. corruption: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. corruption: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. corruption: Collins English Dictionary
  5. corruption: Vocabulary.com
  6. Corruption, corruption: Wordnik
  7. corruption: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. corruption: Wiktionary
  9. corruption: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. corruption: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. corruption: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Corruption, corruption: Dictionary.com
  13. corruption: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Corruption (disambiguation), Corruption (grammar), Corruption (interactive fiction), Corruption (linguistic), Corruption (linguistics), Corruption (political), Corruption: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Corruption: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. corruption: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. corruption: Rhymezone
  18. Corruption, corruption (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. corruption: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. corruption: Free Dictionary
  21. corruption: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. corruption: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  2. Corruption: Inflation Glossary
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. Corruption (disambiguation), Corruption (political), corruption: Legal dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Corruption (disambiguation), corruption: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Corruption, Corruption, Corruption: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  2. corruption: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. corruption: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity.
noun:  The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.
noun:  The product of corruption; putrid matter.
noun:  The decomposition of biological matter.
noun:  Unethical administrative or executive practices (in government or business), including bribery (offering or receiving bribes), conflicts of interest, nepotism, and so on.
noun:  (computing) 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.
noun:  The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct.
noun:  (metalanguage) A nonstandard form of a word, expression, or text, especially when resulting from misunderstanding, transcription error, or mishearing.
noun:  Something originally good or pure that has turned evil or impure; a perversion.

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