lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain

moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"; "its brothels; its opium parlors; its depravity"

destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity; "corruption of a minor"; "the big city's subversion of rural innocence"

inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by commiting a felony); "he was held on charges of corruption and racketeering"

a positive development, as this kind of criticism in the official PA daily was unheard-of for many years

A form of misconduct or deviant behavior by police officers that involves the misuse of authority in a manner designed to produce personal gain for themselves or for others.

Corruption occurs when a person chooses to enrich him or herself at the expense of the general society by misusing his or her official position.

Dishonest or biased behaviour on the part of a government official or company employee.

In philosophical, theological, or moral discussions, corruption often refers to spiritual or moral impurity, or deviation from an ideal. Frequently, this takes the form of contrasting a pure spiritual form with a corrupted manifestation in the physical world. Many philosophers, in fact, have regarded the physical world as inevitably corrupt (Plato being the most famous example of this school of thought).

Term used to describe any unanticipated and undesired alteration of a file, usually caused by software conflicts or hardware malfunctions. Corrupted files usually do not operate as expected.

The computer must keep information about files, folders, and data about how the computer runs all in perfect condition. Unlike a vinyl music record, which can keep playing with a scratch, a computer that has a file with a single flaw can stop the operation of the entire computer and cause further damage to other files. When a computer cannot maintain the integrity of information, it is referred to as having corrupted data or files. Corruption can occur when the computer freezes, is turned off while in the middle of an operation, has a virus, or a badly written or outdated software program.

accidental alteration of data (e.g. a ROM)

The result of data alteration that causes undesirable system performance by modifying system functions or data.

Corrupted data occurs when a system has inadequate checking protocols and there is the possibility that the data read by the reader is not the same data transmitted by the transponder.

a change in data such that the data content received is not what was originally sent.

The inadvertent destruction of electronic data which causes data received or read to differ from that transmitted or originally recorded.