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What does cronyism mean?

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Noun
  1. Favoritism to friends without regard for their qualifications, especially by appointing them to political positions.
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An investigation by The Sunday Times in 2003 revealed that the honours system was corrupted by spin and cronyism.
Allegations of bias, cronyism, and petty politicking have often tainted the results.
The thing about corruption or cronyism is that it's almost impossible to prove, unless its done very incompetently.
Being from Chicago I can tell you that I have seen quite a bit of political corruption and cronyism.
He also took them to task for their authority board appointments and suggested they operated a system of cronyism.
Now it's the code of connections, corruption, and cronyism that reigns supreme.

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