corruptee
corruptee noun: someone who is corrupted or bribed.
Noun
corruptee (plural corruptees)
- Someone who is corrupted or bribed.
- The immunity of the bosses from arrest and prosecution gives them great power. They brag that they have a "rabbi," a "beard," a "cousin," or a "front" in city hall or in the police department, and that this corruptee will insure that no one who sticks with them will be seriously hurt by the forces...1969, Donald R[ay] Cressy, Theft of the Nation: The Structure and Operations of Organized Crime in America, New York, N.Y. […]: Harper & Row, Publishers, page 188
- Bribery is a shadowy endeavor and, whereas one can measure the length of a paved road, the total number of mobile telephone subscribers, the rate of maternal mortality, and so on, hardly anyone has managed effectively to enumerate the myriad facets of corruption—the multiple manipulations and...2017, Robert I[rwin] Rotberg, The Corruption Cure: How Citizens and Leaders Can Combat Graft, Princeton, N.J.; Oxford, Oxfordshire: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 52
Forms of corruptee
| plural | corruptees |
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Origin of corruptee
From corrupt + -ee.
Questions about corruptee
- What does corruptee mean?
- Corruptee means someone who is corrupted or bribed.
- What part of speech is corruptee?
- Corruptee is a noun.
- What is the plural of corruptee?
- The plural of corruptee is corruptees.
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