Corruption

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.\n* 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.\n* A corrupted society is a society with low moral values.\n* A language or a text can be corrupted into a broken form or a different meaning.\n* Parts of a machine can be corrupted, meaning broken.\n* Corruption is used, especially poetically, to describe the decomposition of biological matter. This usage is archaic.