Usually means: Dishonest or fraudulent conduct by officials.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. corruptions: Merriam-Webster
  2. corruptions: Collins English Dictionary
  3. corruptions: Vocabulary.com
  4. Corruption's, Corruptions, corruption's, corruptions: Wordnik
  5. corruptions: Wiktionary
  6. Corruptions: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. corruptions: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. corruptions: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. corruptions: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. corruptions: Encyclopedia

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. corruptions: Father Jeromes DICTIONARY of Words/Phrases Used in the QUFD Website

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Definitions from Wiktionary (corruption)

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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