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There are 6 different meanings of Corruption.

Corruption Disambiguation
Police corruption
2 products, approx. 115 pages
Police corruption, a type of bureaucratic corruption that infects police departments, and includes misuse of authoirty in addition to bribery. Police mis-conduct is a closley associated phenomenon.
Temptation
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Tempting a mind to do immoral things, e.g. corrupting the youth.
Corruption (linguistics)
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Corruption (linguistics) of language or a text into a broken form or a different meaning.
Data corruption
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Data corruption, the receiving of data which is different from that which was transmitted or otherwise intended.
Putrefaction or decomposition of recently living matter. This physical process is the primary model of the metaphorical meaning of corruption, so advanced states of corruption in, e.g. a political structure are said to result in their putrefaction.
Political corruption, dysfunctions of a political system or institution in which politically elected officials seek illegitimate personal gain through actions such as bribery, extortion, cronyism, nepotism, patronage, graft, and embezzlement. "Rent seeking" is a closely related term in economics.



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