The word corrupt (Middle English, from Latin corruptus, past participle of corrumpere, to destroy : com-, intensive pref. and rumpere, to break) when used as an adverb literally means "utterly broken".[1] In modern English usage the words corruption and corrupt have many meanings:
- Political corruption: the abuse of public power, office, or resources by government officials or employees for personal gain, e.g. by extortion, soliciting or offering bribes.[2]
- Corporate corruption: corporate criminality and the abuse of power by corporation officials, either internally or externally.
- Putrefaction: the natural process of decomposition in the human and animal body following death.
- Data corruption: an unintended change to data in storage or in transit.
- Linguistic corruption: the change in meaning to a language or a text introduced by cumulative errors in transcription as changes in the language speakers' comprehension.
- Bribery in politics, business, or sport (including match fixing).
- Institutions dealing with political corruption
- Transparency International
- Group of States Against Corruption (French: Groupe d'Etats contre la Corruption), a body established under the Council of Europe to monitor the implementation of instruments adopted by member states to combat political corruption.
- Independent Commission Against Corruption
- Entertainment with corruption themes
- Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, a Wii game.
- Corrupt (film), a 1981 film starring Harvey Keitel and John Lydon.
- Corrupt (1999 film), a 1999 film starring Ice-T and Silkk The Shocker.
- Corrupt (Angel), an unproduced teleplay written for the television program Angel.
- Kurupt, a rapper
- Corruption (video game), a 1988 computer game by Magnetic Scrolls.
- Corrupted, a Japanese doom-metal band.
See also
References
- ^ http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/corrupt
- ^ Chinhamo, Obert; Shumba, Gabriel (2007), Institutional working definition of corruption, Anti-Corruption Trust of Southern Africa, http://www.actsouthernafrica.org/Working%20Paper%201-%20Draft%20Institutional%20Working%20definition%20of%20Corruption.pdf
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