| 词汇 | corruption |
| 释义 | corruption noun uk /kəˈrʌp.ʃən/ us /kəˈrʌp.ʃən/ corruptionnoun (DISHONEST BEHAVIOUR)C1[ U ] illegal, bad, or dishonest behaviour, especially by people in positions of power: （尤指当权者的）贪污，腐败，堕落 expose corruptionThe film is about a young police officer and his struggle to expose corruption in the force.影片讲述的是一个年轻警察的故事，表现了他是如何克服困难揭露警方内部腐败的。 Political corruption is widespread throughout the country.政治腐败在全国蔓延。 The investigation revealed political chicanery and corruption at the highest levels.调查揭露出了最高层的政治欺诈和腐败。 It's a clear case of corruption.这明显是一起贪腐案。 He caught the public imagination as a crusader against corruption.他以反腐败的斗士形象引起公众注意。 Recent discoveries about corruption have done serious damage to the company's reputation.近来曝光的一些腐败行为使该公司的声誉受到严重损害。 He resigned from the committee in disgust at the corruption.出于对腐败的憎恶，他辞去了在该委员会的职务。 Fraud & corruption anti-bribery anti-corruption anti-counterfeiting anti-fraud Augean dark money defalcation defraud defraud someone/something of something dolus impersonate impersonation imposture launder malfeasance nobble siphon swindle tax evasion vishing You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Lies, lying & hypocrisy corruptionnoun (CHANGED WORD)[ C ] in language, a word whose original form has been changed: （语言）变体 The swear word "bloody" is wrongly thought by some to be a corruption of the words "by our Lady".有些人错误地认为咒骂用语 bloody 是 by our Lady 的变体。 Linguistics: terminology & vocabulary abbreviated form accommodation alphabetic Americanism Anglicism antonym antonymous buzzword cognate coinage homography homonymic homonymy homophonic homophony productive productively receptive receptively referent corruptionnoun (ON COMPUTER)[ U ] the fact of information on a computer being changed so that it is wrong and cannot be used: （计算机上信息的）破坏，损坏 data corruption数据毁损 Computer concepts 2FA 2SV 3-D printing adaptive learning additive manufacturing haptics HCI hex hexadecimal hill climbing infection simulation stack tebibyte telematic telematics telerobotics teraflop texture word processing corruption | Business Englishcorruption noun[ U ] uk /kəˈrʌpʃən/us dishonest or illegal behaviour involving a person in a position of power, for example, accepting money for doing something illegal or immoral: He was a member of the team looking into allegations of corruption in the local government building-works department. Aragon pleaded not guilty to all corruption charges. In some of these markets corruption is rife. IT the fact of information on a computer being damaged in some way and not able to be used: data corruption Examples of corruptioncorruption The measures are attempting to catch the smaller corruptions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He allowed and encouraged the most appalling social injustices, cruelties, inequalities and corruptions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I would argue that one of the corruptions of my adult life is the general contempt in which law is held. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The delay in the latter case was due to pressure of other urgent work in the decoding office and to telegraphic corruptions in the text. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are all kinds of corruptions which take place between men and women. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Further corruptions of this wonderful simple system will be required in future to modify its workings. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In order to give a true account of the language as it exists, we are proposing, therefore, to cut out these corruptions which have been wrongly inserted. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We supplement this with an additional analysis of a second dataset on corruption measured during the late 1980s. The answer appears to lie, at least in part, in the popular perception of rampant official corruption in that country. In other words, the various models explain roughly 78 to 86 per cent of the variance in corruption across the cases analysed here. Corruption can be widespread at the local government level, even if it is controlled effectively at the central government level. Given the obvious difficulties in measuring corruption, any one source may be highly inaccurate. A potentially more serious problem is that changes in perceptions of corruption may lag reality, if they have anything to do with reality at all. A number of cross-national studies include corruption in their analysis. The economic reform index, log of price level, corruption index, and the war dummy are the intermediate variables. See all examples of corruption These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Collocations withcorruptioncorruptionThese are words often used in combination with corruption. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. accusation of corruption The mayor had taken offense to the lyrics of one of the band's songs, which he interpreted as an accusationofcorruption. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. alleged corruption And there are as well parliamentary oversight committees and judicial commissions, which investigate cases of allegedcorruption. corruption scandal This is, of course, the reason why we assume that a corruptionscandal lowers the incumbent's chance of re-election. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. See all collocations with corruption |
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