corruptee

English

Etymology

From corrupt +‎ -ee.

Noun

corruptee (plural corruptees)

1. Someone who is corrupted or bribed.

   Coordinate term: corrupter

   • 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:

     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 of law and order.

   • 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:

     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 machinations that keep corrupters and corruptees in business.