English-Estonian translations for corruption

• korruptsioon
  Korruptsioon ja kuritegevus õõnestavad riiki. Corruption and crime undermine the state.
  Teil kõigil on õigus, korruptsioon on nuhtlus. You are all right, corruption is a scourge.
  Korruptsioon põhjustab probleeme paljudes liikmesriikides. Problems with corruption feature in many Member States.

Definition of corruption

• The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity; depravity; wickedness; impurity; bribery
• The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration
• The product of corruption; putrid matter
• The decomposition of biological matter
• 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
• The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct
• A debased or nonstandard form of a word, expression, or text, resulting from misunderstanding, transcription error, mishearing, etc
• Something originally good or pure that has turned evil or impure; a perversion

Examples

• a corruption of style
• corruption in language

Related words

• anticorruption
• incorruption
• corruptionist
• Corruptionalism
• corruption of a minor