Corrupt

corrupt

Meaning of corrupt in English

corrupt adjective uk /kəˈrʌpt/ us /kəˈrʌpt/ corrupt adjective (BAD) Add to word list C1 dishonestly using your position or power to get an advantage, especially for money: Both companies are under investigation for corrupt practices. The whole system was corrupt - every official she approached wanted money before helping her. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples deceiving others and not telling the truth dishonestThe press called out the campaign’s dishonest tactics. untrustworthyHe made the mistake of basing his news story on an untrustworthy source. deviousIt was a devious plan - but would it work? deceitfulShe’s deeply deceitful and not to be trusted. See more results »

morally bad: a corrupt society More examples SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases corrupt adjective (ON COMPUTER)

When information on a computer becomes corrupt, it cannot be used because it has changed and become wrong: corrupt data a corrupt file SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

corrupt verb [ T ] uk /kəˈrʌpt/ us /kəˈrʌpt/ corrupt verb [T] (MAKE BAD)

C1 to make someone or something become dishonest or immoral: The study claimed that violence on television corrupts the minds of children. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases corrupt verb [T] (ON COMPUTER)

to change information on a computer so that it is wrong and cannot be used: Most of the data on the hard drive was corrupted when the power went out. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Related word corruptible (Definition of corrupt from the Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press) corrupt | American Dictionary corrupt adjective us /kəˈrʌpt/ Add to word list dishonest and willing to use your position or power to your own advantage, esp. for money: It’s been called the most politically corrupt city in the nation.

Corrupt also means bad: Your philosophy is corrupt. corruption noun [ U ] us /kəˈrʌp·ʃən/ political corruption

corrupt verb [ T ] us /kəˈrʌpt/

to make someone dishonest and willing to use their position or power for personal advantage, esp. to get money: Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Don’t let your friends corrupt you (= have a bad moral influence on you).

If information in a computer is corrupted, it is damaged and can no longer be used. (Definition of corrupt from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) corrupt | Business English corrupt adjective uk /kəˈrʌpt/ us Add to word list using your position or power dishonestly or illegally for your own advantage, especially to make money: a corrupt businessman/official/manager, etc. On the advice of a corrupt financial adviser, the accused understated their income by tens of thousands of dollars. corrupt activities/practices

IT used to describe information on a computer that has been damaged or changed in some way and cannot be used: corrupt data/files

corrupt verb [ T ] uk /kəˈrʌpt/ us

to influence someone into doing bad or dishonest things: It is said that power can corrupt people.

IT to change or damage the information on a computer file so that it cannot be used: Most of the data on the hard drive was corrupted. (Definition of corrupt from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of corrupt corrupt The language rights activists present the victim of linguistic imperialism as a sponge who uncritically absorbs corrupting material. From the Cambridge English Corpus Then some processors (fewer than half of them) fail, and the fault consists in corrupting precisely this bit. From the Cambridge English Corpus If they do, then additional work is required to determine the extent to which they are corrupted. From the Cambridge English Corpus Thus, corrupted norms are marked by low behavioural determinacy, but sufficiently strong moral persuasiveness. From the Cambridge English Corpus He almost certainly doubted that there had ever been any revelation to be corrupted. From the Cambridge English Corpus Projects were corrupted by the financial demands of the crown and the speculative investment of patronage seekers. From the Cambridge English Corpus Requiring that some expressions must be treated specially depending on their types corrupts the interface between the components of the compiler. From the Cambridge English Corpus We have seen that the 'only if ’ part from right to left in the satisfaction condition is corrupted. From the Cambridge English Corpus In addition to potential corruption in the process of signal transmission, a message can be corrupted at both the source and destination of the message. From the Cambridge English Corpus They assumed that the chant currently being sung, which clearly did not fit exactly the modal classifications, had been corrupted through time and scribal error. From the Cambridge English Corpus As one might expect it was this which aroused the most anxiety over the theory’s potentially corrupting threats to morality and decency. From the Cambridge English Corpus They suggest that this phenomenon can be captured in our framework under the assumption that the learner’s observations are corrupted by some perceptual noise. From the Cambridge English Corpus Uniform clothing offset the corrupting influences of vanity and competition so prevalent in modern society and subdued young women’s tendencies toward competition. From the Cambridge English Corpus Bootleggers are viewed as corrupting the music because they also have an interest in money. From the Cambridge English Corpus Manualists saw sign language as possibly prior to spoken language, and therefore purer or less corrupted…

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