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SPOILS SYSTEM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The system of employing and promoting civil servants who are friends and supporters of the group in power
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("spoils system" is a kind of...):
system; system of rules (a complex of methods or rules governing behavior)
Antonym:
merit system (the system of employing and promoting civil servants on the basis of ability)
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