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Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Vocabularies of corruption - Advanced Students

My students always ask me the vocabularies generally used for corruption. Their request results from the new they receive from the local media about national and international corrupt officials. Recently, everybody followed the scandal of corruption involving FIFA officials. The vocabularies related to different types of corruption are:

corruption 
wrongdoing
scam
money laundering
racketeering
embezzlement
fraud
sweetener
sleaze
kickback
whistleblower
bribery
market rigging
sports rigging
election rigging
price fixing
match fixing
insider trading
priviledged information
counterfeiting