the situation in which someone important gives jobs to friends rather than to independent people who have the necessary skills and experience
Meaning of cronyism in English
(Definition of cronyism from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of cronyism
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An inevitable consequence of this concentration was increased cronyism and corruption.
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They felt that insecure land tenure and political cronyism were creating financial and even political problems.
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Interestingly, atheism contributed towards cronyism, while the relationship between age brackets and responses were mixed, with no clear pattern.
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Venality seems to have had one foot in the camp of abject cronyism, and the other in that of rampant commercialism.
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The second component, merit-based utilitarianism, greatly overlaps with concepts of fairness as a means to promote utility and suppress cronyism.
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Corruption, cronyism and subordination of the criminal justice system to the executive all increased under the pressures of the armed conflict.
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His arrest also affected the 1999 election in which the opposition gained much public support due to issues of corruption, cronyism, and nepotism.
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But municipal control opens the door to cronyism and parochialism, as it did before.
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The process of selection and promotion of researchers and professors at both university and public research centers is flawed by cronyism and nepotism.
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Even in the absence of cronyism, however, it may not be assumed that schools founded by great leaders will continue to thrive.
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But the anti-baladiyya petitioners' charges of corruption, cronyism, and factionalism were probably the chief factors in the government's decision to dismantle the municipalities.
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It is therefore clear that corporate reform is at the core of the programme for the elimination of corruption, pervasive cronyism, and rent seeking.
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As mentioned earlier, it was a question of cronyism/nepotism versus utilitarianism/meritocracy.
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Cooperation avoidance, fragmentation, partitioning, by-passing, misunderstanding, discretionary intervention, lack of co-operation, cronyism, are, just to mention a few, current practices.
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Such land redistribution as did occur was widely seen as marred by cronyism, corruption, and incompetence.
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