Meaning & Definition of Corruption in English

1. Lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery)

• Use of a position of trust for dishonest gain

2. In a state of progressive putrefaction

3. Decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation)

4. Moral perversion

• Impairment of virtue and moral principles

• "The luxury and corruption among the upper classes"

• "Moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"

• "Its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity"

• "Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction"

5. Destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty

• Undermining moral integrity

• "Corruption of a minor"

• "The big city's subversion of rural innocence"

6. Inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by commiting a felony)

• "He was held on charges of corruption and racketeering"