corruptions
- 1Plural of corruption.
Investigators uncovered a web of bribes, kickbacks, and other corruptions within the agency.
Modern editors trace the manuscript's corruptions back to a single careless copyist.
Note
Every sense of corruption can be counted as well as treated as a mass noun, which is why the plural exists. The singular names the condition itself: moral decay, putrefaction, graft, damaged data. The plural picks out separate instances of it, such as particular bribes or kickbacks, or individual faults in stored or transmitted data. Use the singular for the general state and the plural when the cases could be listed one by one.
corruptions is a form of corruption
corruption, noun: Dishonest or unethical conduct by those in power, such as bribery, nepotism, embezzlement, or conflicts of interest. Full entry
- Forms
- corruptioncorruptions plural
- Spelling
- corruption → corruptions: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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