corruption
英 [kə'rʌpʃ(ə)n]
美[kə'rʌpʃən]
- n. 贪污，腐败；堕落
英英释意
- 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"
- 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"