corruptionとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /kəˈɹʌpʃən/
• 韻: -ʌpʃən
• ハイフネーション: cor‧rup‧tion

名詞

corruption (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 corruptions)

1. The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity; depravity; wickedness; impurity; bribery.
   • (Can we date this quote by en かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?) The Constitutional History of England

     It was necessary, by exposing the gross corruptions of monasteries, . . . to exite popular indignation against them.

   • (Can we date this quote by en かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     They abstained from some of the worst methods of corruption usual to their party in its earlier days.

   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion‎^[1]:

     But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals, fraud, and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive upstarts.

   • 2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 18:

     WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, but could not prove, and would cite as they took to the streets.

2. The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.
   • (Can we date this quote by en かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     The inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a subject of very universal inquiry; for corruption is a reciprocal to generation.

3. The product of corruption; putrid matter.
   • 1821, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer, volume 2, page 154:

     Think of wandering amid sepulchral ruins, of stumbling over the bones of the dead, of encountering what I cannot describe,—the horror of being among those who are neither the living or the dead;—those dark and shadowless things that sport themselves with the reliques of the dead, and feast and love amid corruption,—ghastly, mocking, and terrific.

4. The decomposition of biological matter.
5. The seeking of bribes.
6. (computing) The destruction of data by manipulation of parts of it, either by deliberate or accidental human action or by imperfections in storage or transmission media.
7. The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct

   a corruption of style

   corruption in language

8. (linguistics) A debased or nonstandard form of a word, expression, or text, resulting from misunderstanding, transcription error, mishearing, etc.
9. Something that is evil but is supposed to be good.

同意語

• (economics): rent-seeking
• (act of corrupting または making putrid): adulteration, contamination, debasement, defilement, dirtying, soiling, tainting
• (state of being corrupt または putrid): decay, decomposition, deterioration, putrefaction, rotting
• (product of corruption; putrid matter): decay, putrescence, rot
• (act of impairing integrity, virtue または moral principle):
• (state of being corrupted または debased): debasement, depravity, evil, impurity, sinfulness, wickedness
• (act of changing for the worse): deterioration, worsening
• (act of being changed for the worse): destroying, ruining, spoiling
• (departure from what is pure または correct): deterioration, erosion
• (debased または nonstandard form of a word, expression, または text): bastardization

派生語

• corruption of blood

参照

“corruption” in the Collins English Dictionary