Corruption vs. Fraud

Corruptionnoun

The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity; depravity; wickedness; impurity; bribery.

Corruptionnoun

The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.

Corruptionnoun

The product of corruption; putrid matter.

Corruptionnoun

The decomposition of biological matter.

Corruptionnoun

The seeking of bribes.

Corruptionnoun

(computing) The destruction of data by manipulation of parts of it, either by deliberate or accidental human action or by imperfections in storage or transmission media.

Corruptionnoun

The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct

Corruptionnoun

(linguistics) A debased or nonstandard form of a word, expression, or text, resulting from misunderstanding, transcription error, mishearing, etc.

Corruptionnoun

Something that is evil but is supposed to be good.

Corruptionnoun

The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.

Corruptionnoun

The product of corruption; putrid matter.

Corruptionnoun

The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity; depravity; wickedness; impurity; bribery.

Corruptionnoun

The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct; as, a corruption of style; corruption in language.

Corruptionnoun

lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain

Corruptionnoun

in a state of progressive putrefaction

Corruptionnoun

decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation)

Corruptionnoun

moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles;

Corruptionnoun

destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity;

Corruptionnoun

inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by commiting a felony);

Corruption

Corruption, as it is defined by the World Bank, is a form of dishonesty or a criminal offense which is undertaken by a person or an organization which is entrusted with a position of authority, in order to acquire illicit benefits or abuse power for one's private gain. Corruption may involve many activities which include bribery and embezzlement, and it may also involve practices which are legal in many countries.

Fraudnoun

(law) The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics.

Fraudnoun

Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain.

Fraudnoun

The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.

Fraudnoun

A person who performs any such trick.

Fraudnoun

(obsolete) A trap or snare.

Fraudverb

(obsolete) To defraud

Fraudnoun

Deception deliberately practiced with a view to gaining an unlawful or unfair advantage; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured; injurious stratagem; deceit; trick.

Fraudnoun

An intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of obtaining some valuable thing or promise from another.

Fraudnoun

A trap or snare.

Fraudnoun

intentional deception resulting in injury to another person

Fraudnoun

a person who makes deceitful pretenses

Fraudnoun

something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage

Fraud

In law, fraud is intentional deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right. Fraud can violate civil law (e.g., a fraud victim may sue the fraud perpetrator to avoid the fraud or recover monetary compensation) or criminal law (e.g., a fraud perpetrator may be prosecuted and imprisoned by governmental authorities), or it may cause no loss of money, property, or legal right but still be an element of another civil or criminal wrong.