Corruption

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Corruption is a general concept describing any organized, interdependent system in which part of the system is either not performing duties it was originally intended to, or performing them in an improper way, to the detriment of the system's original purpose.

Specific types of corruption include:

Political corruption, corruption of a political system through bribery, intimidation, extortion, vote buying, destabilization, or influence peddling
Police corruption
Corporate crime, crimes either committed by a corporation or by individuals that may be identified with a corporation or other business entity
Data corruption, the receiving of data which is different from that which was transmitted or otherwise intended
Corruption (grammar) of language or a text into a broken form or a different meaning

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