OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 15743

corruption

/kəˈɹʌpʃən/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
corrupción
The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity.
It was necessary, by exposing the gross corruptions of monasteries, […] to exite popular indignation against them.
They abstained from some of the worst methods of corruption usual to their party in its earlier days.
corrupción • corruptela
Unethical administrative or executive practices (in government or business), including bribery (offering or receiving bribes), conflicts of interest, nepotism, embezzlement, and so on.
daño de datos
The destruction of data by manipulation of parts of it, either by deliberate or accidental human action or by imperfections in storage or transmission media.
The idea of having a time lag is to allow for situations when a corruption of some type affects the source server. If a corruption occurs, you do not want it to replicate to the co…
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