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Originally Posted by murraypaul
To me, corruption means providing payment (whether in money, goods, favours, etc...) to obtain a benefit (again, money, goods, favours, etc... ) that you would not otherwise be entitled to. You have influenced someone to act for their own benefit, rather than the benefit of the organisation they work for.
How are you defining it?
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Sigh. It would be nice if just once an MR thread didn't derail into The Dictionary Dance.
cor·rupt
1. guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery;
lacking integrity; crooked: a corrupt judge.
2. debased in character; depraved; perverted; wicked; evil: a corrupt society.
3. made inferior by errors or alterations, as a text.
4. infected; tainted.
5. decayed; putrid.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/corrupt
Definition of CORRUPT
transitive verb
1a : to change from good to bad in morals, manners, or actions; also : bribe
b : to degrade with unsound principles or moral values
2: rot, spoil
3: to subject (a person) to corruption of blood
4: to alter from the original or correct form or version
intransitive verb
1a : to become tainted or rotten
b : to become morally debased
2: to cause disintegration or ruin
Examples of CORRUPT
1. a politician corrupted by greed
2. music that corrupts the morals of children
3. corrupting the country's legal system
4. the corrupting influence of power
5. Their idealism has been corrupted by cynicism.
6. The file has been corrupted and no longer works properly.
7. a corrupted version of the ancient text
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/corrupt
Your definition of corruption -- bribery -- is much narrower than the accepted definition of corruption.
ETA: If it's not too rude for me to say so, I would like to point out that it's not hard to look this stuff up. (At least, it wasn't hard for me. Your circumstances may be different from mine, in which case I apologize.) Maybe you could do that yourself next time instead of demanding that everyone else define their words for you? I don't think it's fair for the people you're engaging with to demand that we all define all our words for you as long as Dictionary.com still exists. This is my personal opinion.