I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a corrupt regime (= dishonest )
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Much of the aid that the Americans sent lined the pockets of his corrupt regime.
corrupt (= one who is not honest )
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They make quiet deals with corrupt politicians.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
most
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There was general relief that a government regarded as the most corrupt in the country's history had gone.
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Law enforcement officials consider it the most corrupt of six border crossings in Arizona.
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Indeed Citibank, seems to have been a crucial money launderer for some of the world's most corrupt officials.
■ NOUN
government
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Progressives wish to support community-based organizations rather than corrupt governments .
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It has often achieved less than that - by keeping corrupt governments and their economy-wrecking policies in place.
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When economic and social progress is hindered by ineffectual and corrupt government , the global polity suffers.
official
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Today security threats come from Chechnya, organised crime and corrupt officials .
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Interestingly, they believe him when he says that he will prosecute and imprison corrupt officials .
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Indeed Citibank, seems to have been a crucial money launderer for some of the world's most corrupt officials .
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Even so it is not clear whether the old corrupt officials have been removed.
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Now unscrupulous logging companies assisted by corrupt officials are destroying forests at the rate of 50 million acres a year.
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And corrupt officials have more chance of a rake-off when expensive goods are involved.
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The suspicion is that it has been given a new identity, with the collusion of corrupt officials .
politician
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But why should corrupt politicians voluntarily give up their powers of patronage and intervention?
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She mentioned corrupt politicians and big businesses.
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His father emphasized strenuous effort to achieve goals and total obedience to those in authority, and he ranted about corrupt politicians .
practices
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Suburban communities swiftly expel sleazy politicians and weed out corrupt practices .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Corrupt customs officials have helped the drug trade to flourish.
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a corrupted file
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A grand jury accused the police department of being brutal and corrupt .
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In the 1970s, the city's police force was among the most corrupt in the nation.
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Perez said that there were virtually no procedures in place to weed out corrupt officials.
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Politics has become a corrupt , big-money game.
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Some segments of your hard drive are corrupt .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Edwards, a master psychologist of religion, represented his town as corrupt .
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In fact, it would seem to contain the seeds from which corrupt marketing practices grow.
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It's generally impossible to compress such files - the program sees each overlay as corrupt data.
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Law enforcement officials consider it the most corrupt of six border crossings in Arizona.
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Suburban communities swiftly expel sleazy politicians and weed out corrupt practices.
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The police are too corrupt and they work for the Arellanos.
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The police force inherited by Nicholas was small, corrupt and ill-trained.
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They prefer a corrupt and known system.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
power
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It can be addictive, for power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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To compound the problem, a drop in battery power corrupted the software programme which controlled the radio itself.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Excessive campaign spending is corrupting the American political system.
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Power tends to corrupt , and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Some of the files were corrupted and will have to be rewritten.
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the corrupting influence of drugs
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The prison system does not work because many of the younger offenders are being corrupted by older, long term prisoners.
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The Senate will form a committee to determine if violence on television is corrupting young people.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Further, the higher the profits, the easier it is to corrupt government agents.
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Had a program run on start-up been corrupted?
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How you corrupted a young and lovely woman ... and subjected her to the most shatteringly depraved treatment.
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Power and money corrupt , sure.
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Slowly their friendship was corrupted by competition.
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So Englishness is corrupted from the beginning.
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Some make a protein, but others are so corrupted that they can no longer do anything.
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Was Caringolat aware how the precise and fastidious sequences of the Vibrancy were being corrupted beyond Por Tanssie?