corrupt Význam & definícia

Význam corrupt v slovenčine

• 0 dishonestly using your position or power to get an advantage, especially for money:

  • Both companies are under investigation for corrupt practices.

  • The whole system was corrupt - every official she approached wanted money before helping her.

  • a corrupt society

• 1 When information on a computer becomes corrupt, it cannot be used because it has changed and become wrong:

  • corrupt data

  • a corrupt file

• 2 to make someone or something become dishonest or immoral:

  • The study claimed that violence on television corrupts the minds of children.

• 3 to change information on a computer so that it is wrong and cannot be used:

  • Most of the data on the hard drive was corrupted when the power went out.

• 4 dishonest and willing to use your position or power to your own advantage, esp. for money:

  • It’s been called the most politically corrupt city in the nation.

  • Your philosophy is corrupt.

• 5 to make someone dishonest and willing to use their position or power for personal advantage, esp. to get money:

  • Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

  • Don’t let your friends corrupt you (= have a bad moral influence on you).

• 6 using your position or power dishonestly or illegally for your own advantage, especially to make money:

  • a corrupt businessman/official/manager, etc. On the advice of a corrupt financial adviser, the accused understated their income by tens of thousands of dollars.

  • corrupt activities/practices

• 7 used to describe information on a computer that has been damaged or changed in some way and cannot be used:

  • corrupt data/files

• 8 to influence someone into doing bad or dishonest things:

  • It is said that power can corrupt people.

• 9 to change or damage the information on a computer file so that it cannot be used:

  • Most of the data on the hard drive was corrupted.