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1. dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power, typically involving bribery:

汚職, 贈収賄, 買収

e.g. the journalist who wants to expose corruption in high places.

the action of making someone or something morally depraved or the state of being so:

堕落, (道徳的)腐敗

e.g. the word “addict” conjures up evil and corruption.

2. the process by which something, typically a word or expression, is changed from its original use or meaning to one that is regarded as erroneous or debased.

〖通例a ～〗 〘言〙 (言葉の)なまり, 転訛（てんか）; (原文などの)改悪.

the process of causing errors to appear in a computer program or database.

3. archaic decay; putrefaction:

腐敗

e.g. the potato turned black and rotten with corruption.

Middle English: via Old French from Latin corruptio(n-), from corrumpere ‘mar, bribe, destroy’ (see corrupt).