贈収賄

kana: ぞうしゅうわい
rome: zousyuuwai

贈収賄 - English Dictionary

[ noun ]
■ inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by commiting a felony)
e.g.)
・he was held on charges of corruption and racketeering
corruption

[ noun ]
■ destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty
■ undermining moral integrity
e.g.)
・corruption of a minor
・the big city's subversion of rural innocence
corruption , subversion

[ noun ]
■ the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage
bribery , graft

[ noun ]
■ moral perversion
■ impairment of virtue and moral principles
e.g.)
・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
corruption , degeneracy , depravation , depravity , putrefaction

[ noun ]
■ lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery)
■ use of a position of trust for dishonest gain
corruption , corruptness

[ noun ]
■ decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation)
corruption

[ noun ]
■ in a state of progressive putrefaction
corruption , putrescence , putridness , rottenness

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