- 1(of people) willing to use their power to do dishonest or illegal things in return for money or to get an advantage a corrupt regime corrupt officials accepting bribes
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- 2(of behavior) dishonest or immoral corrupt practices The whole system is inefficient and corrupt.
- 3(computing) containing changes or faults, and no longer in the original state corrupt software The text on the disk seems to be corrupt.
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