corruptadjective
uk/kəˈrʌpt/us/kəˈrʌpt/corrupt adjective (BAD)
C1 dishonestly using your position or power to get an advantage, especially for money:
Both companies are under investigation for corrupt practices.
The whole system was corrupt - every official she approached wanted money before helping her.
morally bad:
a corrupt society
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- He called for checks to discover whether corrupt officials are being bribed to connive in shoddy construction.
- A powerful and corrupt elite has bled this country dry.
- One election cannot erase 65 years of a corrupt one-party political process.
- Their accusations of corruption are hypocritical - they have been just as corrupt themselves.
- The old corrupt, totalitarian regime was overthrown.
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Fraud & corruption
- baksheesh
- blackmail
- buy sb off
- cook
- cook the books idiom
- corruption
- fraudulent accounting
- front for sth
- game-fixing
- get at sb
- graft
- impersonate
- imposture
- perjury
- phishing
- Ponzi scheme
- rort
- shell
- siphon sth off
- suborn
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Morally wrong and evil
corrupt adjective (ON COMPUTER)
When information on a computer becomes corrupt, it cannot be used because it has changed and become wrong:
corrupt data
a corrupt file
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Computer concepts
- aeroplane mode
- airplane mode
- atomicity
- augmented reality
- back end
- blogosphere
- clone
- cloud
- corruption
- default to sth
- electronic
- gigabyte
- multimedia
- reboot
- template
- tuple
- virtual
- virtually
- web hosting
- what you see is what you get idiom
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corruptverb [ T ]
uk/kəˈrʌpt/us/kəˈrʌpt/corrupt verb [ T ] (MAKE BAD)
C1 to make someone or something become dishonest or immoral:
The study claimed that violence on television corrupts the minds of children.
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Fraud & corruption
- baksheesh
- blackmail
- buy sb off
- cook
- cook the books idiom
- corruption
- fraudulent accounting
- front for sth
- game-fixing
- get at sb
- graft
- impersonate
- imposture
- perjury
- phishing
- Ponzi scheme
- rort
- shell
- siphon sth off
- suborn
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corrupt verb [ T ] (ON COMPUTER)
to change information on a computer so that it is wrong and cannot be used:
Most of the data on the hard drive was corrupted when the power went out.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Computer concepts
- aeroplane mode
- airplane mode
- atomicity
- augmented reality
- back end
- blogosphere
- clone
- cloud
- corruption
- default to sth
- electronic
- gigabyte
- multimedia
- reboot
- template
- tuple
- virtual
- virtually
- web hosting
- what you see is what you get idiom
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corruptible
adjective uk/kəˈrʌp.tə.bəl/us/kəˈrʌp.tə.bəl/
Perhaps some systems of government are more corruptible than others.