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Cronyism
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- 1 Favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications; especially (politics), in their appointment to political positions. countable, derogatory, uncountable
"[T]he present structure of the collective bargaining agreement, combined with nepotism and cronyism and other abuses in employment and referral practices, have perpetuated the effects of the past discrimination, […]"
- 2 favoritism shown to friends and associates (as by appointing them to positions without regard for their qualifications) wordnet
- 3 The condition of being friends; friendship; also, the ability or inclination to make friends. countable, obsolete, uncountable
"[T]he preacher […] was reading to them the duty of loving one another as Christians, But only particularly and exclusively were they to love one another "as Christians," that is as confederates and caballers together in a particular interest, distinct from that of the great family of mankind; […] The benefit to themselves from this Free-masonry sectarian cronyism, (for which the uninitiated world is so much obliged to them) was, to be, that […] [t]he spirit of God was to bear witness with their spirits, and to settle the matter of faith with a degree of conviction, that should render reason superfluous and inquiry unnecessary."
Etymology
From crony (“close friend”) + -ism (suffix forming names of a tendency of action, behaviour, condition, opinion, or state belonging to a class or group of persons).
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