Corruption

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Corruption or corrupt may refer to:

• Political corruption, the dysfunction of a political system or institution in which government officials, political. officials or employees seek illegitimate personal gain through actions such as bribery, extortion, etc.
• Corporate corruption, the abuse of power by corporate managers against shareholders or consumers.
• Putrefaction, the decomposition of recently-living bio-matter.
• Data corruption, an unintended change to data in storage or in transit.
• Corruption (linguistics), the change in meaning to a language or a text introduced by cumulative errors in transcription as changes in the language speakers' comprehension.
• Bribery in politics, business, or sport (including match fixing).

Institutions

• Group of States Against Corruption (French: Groupe d'Etats contre la Corruption), a body and mechanism established under the umbrella of the Council of Europe to monitor the implementation at domestic level of conventions and other instruments adopted by this organisation's member states to combat corruption in its various forms.

Entertainment

• Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, a Wii game.
• Corrupt (film), a 1981 film starring Harvey Keitel and John Lydon.
• Corrupt (1999 film), a 1999 film starring Ice-T and Silkk The Shocker.
• Corrupt (Angel), an unproduced teleplay written for the television program Angel.
• Kurupt, a rapper
• Corruption (video game), a 1988 computer game by Magnetic Scrolls.
• Corrupted, a Japanese doom-metal band.

See also

• Collusion

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