Definitions For Corruption

noun

• Inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by commiting a felony)
• Destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity
• Moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles
• Lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain
• Decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation)
• In a state of progressive putrefaction
• Dishonest or illegal behavior especially by powerful people (such as government officials or police officers)
• The act of corrupting someone or something
• Something that has been changed from its original form