CORRUPT


Meaning of CORRUPT in English

I. adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a corrupt regime (= dishonest )

Much of the aid that the Americans sent lined the pockets of his corrupt regime.

corrupt (= one who is not honest )

They make quiet deals with corrupt politicians.

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■ ADVERB

most

There was general relief that a government regarded as the most corrupt in the country's history had gone.

Law enforcement officials consider it the most corrupt of six border crossings in Arizona.

Indeed Citibank, seems to have been a crucial money launderer for some of the world's most corrupt officials.

■ NOUN

government

Progressives wish to support community-based organizations rather than corrupt governments .

It has often achieved less than that - by keeping corrupt governments and their economy-wrecking policies in place.

When economic and social progress is hindered by ineffectual and corrupt government , the global polity suffers.

official

Today security threats come from Chechnya, organised crime and corrupt officials .

Interestingly, they believe him when he says that he will prosecute and imprison corrupt officials .

Indeed Citibank, seems to have been a crucial money launderer for some of the world's most corrupt officials .

Even so it is not clear whether the old corrupt officials have been removed.

Now unscrupulous logging companies assisted by corrupt officials are destroying forests at the rate of 50 million acres a year.

And corrupt officials have more chance of a rake-off when expensive goods are involved.

The suspicion is that it has been given a new identity, with the collusion of corrupt officials .

politician

But why should corrupt politicians voluntarily give up their powers of patronage and intervention?

She mentioned corrupt politicians and big businesses.

His father emphasized strenuous effort to achieve goals and total obedience to those in authority, and he ranted about corrupt politicians .

practices

Suburban communities swiftly expel sleazy politicians and weed out corrupt practices .

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Corrupt customs officials have helped the drug trade to flourish.

a corrupted file

A grand jury accused the police department of being brutal and corrupt .

In the 1970s, the city's police force was among the most corrupt in the nation.

Perez said that there were virtually no procedures in place to weed out corrupt officials.

Politics has become a corrupt , big-money game.

Some segments of your hard drive are corrupt .

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Edwards, a master psychologist of religion, represented his town as corrupt .

In fact, it would seem to contain the seeds from which corrupt marketing practices grow.

It's generally impossible to compress such files - the program sees each overlay as corrupt data.

Law enforcement officials consider it the most corrupt of six border crossings in Arizona.

Suburban communities swiftly expel sleazy politicians and weed out corrupt practices.

The police are too corrupt and they work for the Arellanos.

The police force inherited by Nicholas was small, corrupt and ill-trained.

They prefer a corrupt and known system.

II. verb

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■ NOUN

power

It can be addictive, for power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

To compound the problem, a drop in battery power corrupted the software programme which controlled the radio itself.

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Excessive campaign spending is corrupting the American political system.

Power tends to corrupt , and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Some of the files were corrupted and will have to be rewritten.

the corrupting influence of drugs

The prison system does not work because many of the younger offenders are being corrupted by older, long term prisoners.

The Senate will form a committee to determine if violence on television is corrupting young people.

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Further, the higher the profits, the easier it is to corrupt government agents.

Had a program run on start-up been corrupted?

How you corrupted a young and lovely woman ... and subjected her to the most shatteringly depraved treatment.

Power and money corrupt , sure.

Slowly their friendship was corrupted by competition.

So Englishness is corrupted from the beginning.

Some make a protein, but others are so corrupted that they can no longer do anything.

Was Caringolat aware how the precise and fastidious sequences of the Vibrancy were being corrupted beyond Por Tanssie?

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