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There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite.
Jorge Luis Borges

Meaning of "corrupter" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CORRUPTER

corrupter  [kəˈrʌptə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CORRUPTER

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Corrupter is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CORRUPTER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

corrupter

Corruption

In philosophical, theological, or moral discussions, corruption is spiritual or moral impurity or deviation from an ideal. Corruption may include many activities including bribery and embezzlement. Government, or 'political', corruption occurs when an office-holder or other governmental employee acts in an official capacity for personal gain. The word corrupt when used as an adjective literally means "utterly broken". The word was first used by Aristotle and later by Cicero who added the terms bribe and abandonment of good habits. Morris, a professor of politics, corruption is the illegitimate use of public power to benefit a private interest. Economist I. Senior defines corruption as an action to secretly provide a good or a service to a third party so that he or she can influence certain actions which benefit the corrupt, a third party, or both in which the corrupt agent has authority.

Definition of corrupter in the English dictionary

The definition of corrupter in the dictionary is something or someone that makes people dishonest or immoral.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CORRUPTER


accepter
əkˈsɛptə
acceptor
əkˈsɛptə
adaptor
əˈdæptə
captor
ˈkæptə
chapter
ˈtʃæptə
copter
ˈkɒptə
corruptor
kəˈrʌptə
descriptor
dɪˈskrɪptə
disrupter
dɪsˈrʌptə
disruptor
dɪsˈrʌptə
Gupta
ˈɡʌptə
helicopter
ˈhɛlɪˌkɒptə
interceptor
ˌɪntəˈsɛptə
interrupter
ˌɪntəˈrʌptə
interruptor
ˌɪntəˈrʌptə
raptor
ˈræptə
receptor
rɪˈsɛptə
sculptor
ˈskʌlptə
upta
ˈʌptə
upter
ˈʌptə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CORRUPTER

corrugate
corrugated
corrugated cardboard
corrugated iron
corrugated paper
corrugation
corrugator
corrupt
corruptibility
corruptible
corruptibleness
corruptibly
corruption
corruption of minors
corruptionist
corruptive
corruptively
corruptly
corruptness
corruptor

WORDS THAT END LIKE CORRUPTER

adapter
adopter
compter
diopter
early adopter
graphics adapter
gyrocopter
intercepter
lithotripter
opter
ornithopter
peripter
police helicopter
prompter
scripter
subchapter
sumpter
Teleprompter
Tempter
the Tempter

Synonyms and antonyms of corrupter in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «corrupter» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CORRUPTER

Find out the translation of corrupter to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of corrupter from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «corrupter» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

行贿
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

corruptor
570 millions of speakers

English

corrupter
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

corrupter
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المفسد
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

взяткодатель
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

corruptor
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

দূর্নীতিগ্রস্থ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

corrupteur
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Rasuah
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Verführer
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

堕落させる人
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

타락
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ngrusak
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Corruptor
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சீரழிப்பவன்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दूषित
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Corrupter´da
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

corruttore
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Corrupter
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

хабародавець
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

corupător
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

διαφθορείς
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verleier
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

förförare
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

som ødelegger
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about corrupter

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3 QUOTES WITH «CORRUPTER»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word corrupter.
1
Dean Acheson
The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.
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Jorge Luis Borges
There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite.
3
Paul Di Filippo
'James and the Giant Peach' magnificently starts out Dahl's career as a blithe and droll Bad Uncle corrupter and affirmer of youth. Its influence can be subsequently traced down the decades in everything from Maurice Sendak to Lemony Snicket to J. K. Rowling.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CORRUPTER»

Discover the use of corrupter in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to corrupter and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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I.R.$. (english version) - volume 4 - The Corrupter
Larry B. Max is an unusual specialist from a little-known branch of the I.R.S. (Internal Revenue Service), the all-powerful tax-collecting agency of the United States, with every technological method at his disposal to link high finance and ...
Stephen Desberg, Bernard Vrancken, 2013
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The absurd hypothesis, that Eusebius of Cæsarea ... was an ...
THE ABSURD HYPOTHESIS, THAT EUSEBIOS OK CSSAREA, BISHOP AND HISTORIAN, WAS AN EDITOR OR CORRUPTER OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES, EXPOSED, IN A SECOND PART THE CASE OF EUSEBIUS, BY THE AUTHOR OF ...
Thomas Falconer, Frederick Nolan, 1823
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Principles of Criminology
Every organized crime family, or at least every Cosa Nostra family, has in its division of labor at least one position for a "corrupter." The person occupying this position bribes, buys, intimidates, threatens, negotiates, and sweet-talks himself into ...
Edwin Hardin Sutherland, Donald Ray Cressey, David F. Luckenbill, 1992
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Georg Cantor: His Mathematics and Philosophy of the Infinite
One of the greatest revolutions in mathematics occurred when Georg Cantor (1845-1918) promulgated his theory of transfinite sets.
Joseph Warren Dauben, 1990
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The Corrupter: I.R.$
Max investigates Silicia, Inc., a mysterious company fronting the activities of a beautiful and deadly assassin.
Stephen Desberg, Bernard Vranken, 2010
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ADB/OECD Anti-Corruption Initiative for Asia and the Pacific ...
The practice of providing lenient treatment in prison for corrupter inmates should be abolished. Tight official and social supervision on the treatment of prison inmates should be conducted to ensure that the treatment of corrupter inmates is the ...
OECD, 2010
7
Shakespeare in the Modern World
'CORRUPTER. OF. WORDS'. BY MICHEL GRIVELET Though the fact has often been deplored, it is perhaps a good thing for us, in France, that we have had no ' classic' translation of Shakespeare, comparable, for instance, with that by ...
Allardyce Nicoll, 1963
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The Corrupter
Enter "The Corrupter," driving humans from all stations in life to insanity and acts of cruelty through a kind of soul-poisoning that one seemingly cannot recover from.
Donald Eugene Koger, 2011
9
Government, Ethics, and Managers: A Guide to Solving Ethical ...
The Corrupter drives his wife and friends to another city on a Sunday to attend a professional football game. They stay overnight and drive back the next day. The following morning the car is used for an official trip to the next state.
Sheldon S. Steinberg, David Austern, 1990
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Abstract State Machines, Alloy, B and Z: Second ...
The sub-system corrupter describes a buffer, except that an output may deliver a corrupt value whenever neither of the previous two outputs are corrupt. Predicate show_corruption is another utility predicate, in this case to visualise corruptions.
Marc Frappier, Uwe Glässer, Sarfraz Khurshid, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CORRUPTER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term corrupter is used in the context of the following news items.
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How Orson Welles shattered the Hollywood image
... old young man, and he reached the summit of it, in Chimes at Midnight (1965), as a young old man, playing Falstaff, that corrupter of youth. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
2
Short Cut Wealth Is a Demise!
I, for instance, had been put in jail because I fought the corrupter and saved over 110 million birr of the government. What we need here is a ... «AllAfrica.com, Jun 15»
3
Remembering Fagin and Ron Moody, the Man Who Played Him
[Fagin is] a monster in the book, a corrupter of children. I could only change it.” Bart's sprightly song “Pick a Pocket or Two” gave him a clue, ... «Jewish Daily Forward, Jun 15»
4
Corruption is endemic in soccer-mad Argentina - just like it is in FIFA
... therefore, the corrupter has to set about corrupting everyone, not just the wealthy. This is how everyone becomes debased over time and how ... «Irish Independent, Jun 15»
5
The Pope And The Anti-Semite
He referred to the Talmud as “a manual for the bandit, the corrupter, the social destroyer.” He also recommended several policies, later adopted ... «The Jewish Press, Jun 15»
6
Arrest of Cayman FIFA official Jeffrey Webb reveals two lives
“This man is not a corrupter. He is of good character; always joking and smiling.” Webb, Warner and other influential FIFA officials are accused ... «Miami Herald, Jun 15»
7
Myths and the dirty truth of political lobbying
Jack Abramoff is not the acme of lobbyists, he's a crook; Brian Burke is not really a government relations consultant, he's a corrupter of proper ... «The Mandarin, Jun 15»
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10 Famous People Who Proved Perseverance Pays Off
In fact, he was sentenced to death because his “new-age ideas” branded him “an immoral corrupter of youth”. Although his death prevented ... «Business 2 Community, Jun 15»
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Patriots Quarterback Controversy: Jimmy Garoppolo Slams Tom …
While All Pro Socratic Corrupter-Of-The-Youth Tom Brady could be on the sidelines for the first few weeks of the season, the support from the ... «Pats Pulpit, May 15»
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Editorial: FIFA scandal has ring of familiarity for Utahns
A professional corrupter's delightful place to engage in professional fund raising, until Mitt came to the rescue, everyone was paid off, and the ... «Salt Lake Tribune, May 15»

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