What is the meaning of corruption?

noun

• Lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain.
  • synonyms: corruptness
• In a state of progressive putrefaction.
  • synonyms: putrescence, putridness, rottenness
• Decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation. )
• Moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles.
  • usage: "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"; "its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity"; "Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction"
  • synonyms: degeneracy, depravation, depravity, putrefaction
• Destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity.
  • usage: "corruption of a minor"; "the big city's subversion of rural innocence"
  • synonyms: subversion
• Inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery. to violate duty (as by commiting a felony))
  • usage: "he was held on charges of corruption and racketeering"