{
    "term": "corruption",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "dishonest or illegal behaviour, especially of people in authority",
            "labels": "(British English)(North American English)(British English)(North American English)(especially British English)(especially British English)(especially North American English)(especially British English)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "allegations of **bribery and corruption**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The new district attorney has promised to fight police corruption."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He strongly attacked corruption and favouritism in the government."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was brought down by a corruption scandal."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The corruption allegations proved false."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This police unit was established to fight corruption."
                },
                {
                    "text": "corruption among high-ranking government officials"
                },
                {
                    "text": "corruption in government"
                },
                {
                    "text": "There were allegations of bribery and corruption."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Crime and punishment", "Personal qualities"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["endemic", "massive", "rampant"],
                "… of corruption": ["case"],
                "verb + corruption": ["attack", "combat", "fight"],
                "corruption + noun": ["scandal", "allegation", "charge"],
                "preposition": ["corruption among", "corruption in"],
                "phrases": [
                    "accusations of corruption",
                    "allegations of corruption",
                    "charges of corruption"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the act or effect of making somebody change from moral to immoral standards of behaviour",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He claimed that sex and violence on TV led to the corruption of young people."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["endemic", "massive", "rampant"],
                "… of corruption": ["case"],
                "verb + corruption": ["attack", "combat", "fight"],
                "corruption + noun": ["scandal", "allegation", "charge"],
                "preposition": ["corruption among", "corruption in"],
                "phrases": [
                    "accusations of corruption",
                    "allegations of corruption",
                    "charges of corruption"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "the form of a word or phrase that has become changed from its original form in some way; the process by which a word or phrase changes form in this way",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The word ‘holiday’ is a corruption of ‘holy day’."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He thought it was possible to secure the language from corruption and decay."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "the effect when data is changed by accident in a computer system due to hardware or software failure",
            "labels": "(computing)",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "A failure of a hard disk can cause unrecoverable data corruption."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Computers"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəˈrʌpʃn/",
                "audio": "co/corruption/corruption__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəˈrʌpʃn/",
                "audio": "co/corruption/corruption__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: via Old French from Latin corruptio(n-), from corrumpere ‘mar, bribe, destroy’, from cor- ‘altogether’ + rumpere ‘to break’."
}