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Corruption (disambiguation)

Corruption means deterioration, the breakdown from a functioning, ordered state.

Political corruption or civil corruption is expressed through bribery, intimidation, extortion, vote buying , destabilization , or influence peddling.
Data corruption is the receiving of data which is different from that which was transmitted or otherwise intended. Error checking is usually used to prevent this.
A corrupted society is a society with low moral values.
A language or a text can be corrupted into a broken form or a different meaning.
Parts of a machine can be corrupted, meaning broken.
Corruption is used, especially poetically, to describe the decomposition of biological matter. This usage is archaic.

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