corruption

汚職、腐敗

権力や公職を不正に利用して、金銭や個人的な利益を得ること。

やさしい英語で： Dishonest use of power or a public position to get money or other personal benefits.

• The mayor promised to fight corruption.
• Several police officers were arrested for corruption.
• The investigation exposed corruption within the government.

類義語： dishonesty, graft

反対語： integrity

よく使う表現： political corruption, fight corruption, corruption scandal, government corruption

変質、破損、堕落

変化によって物が傷み、正確さや純粋さ、よさが失われること。

やさしい英語で： A change that damages something or makes it less correct, pure, or good.

• Data corruption made the file unreadable.
• She blamed greed for the corruption of their values.
• This spelling is a corruption of an older word.

使い方： corruption of something (The missing words resulted from corruption of the original text.)

類義語： deterioration, degradation

よく使う表現： data corruption, corruption of something, moral corruption