- (of people) willing to use their power to do dishonest or illegal things in return for money or to get an advantage
- It was seen as the only way to overthrow a corrupt regime.
- They promised to seek out the corrupt officials who had accepted the bribes.
- one of the most notoriously corrupt city councils
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- become
- hopelessly
- thoroughly
- totally
- …
- (of behaviour) not honest or moral
- They had been engaged in corrupt practices.
- The whole system is inefficient and corrupt.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- become
- hopelessly
- thoroughly
- totally
- …
- (computing) containing changes or faults, and no longer in the original state
- corrupt software
- The file on the disk seems to be corrupt.
Word OriginMiddle English: from Latin corruptus, past participle of corrumpere ‘mar, bribe, destroy’, from cor- ‘altogether’ + rumpere ‘to break’.
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