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thesituationin which someoneimportantgivesjobstofriendsratherthan toindependentpeoplewho have thenecessaryskillsandexperience 任人唯亲,任用亲信SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesUnfairness and favouring someone unfairly - ableism
- ableist
- agism
- agist
- Anglocentric
- discrimination
- discriminatory
- elitism
- elitist
- ethnocentric
- one-sided
- one-sidedness
- one-way
- othering
- partial
- unbalance
- unequal
- unequally
- uneven
- unevenly
See more results » (Definition ofcronyismfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)Examplesofcronyismcronyism An inevitable consequence of this concentration was increasedcronyismand corruption.From theCambridge English Corpus They felt that insecure land tenure and politicalcronyismwere creating financial and even political problems.From theCambridge English Corpus Interestingly, atheism contributed towardscronyism, while the relationship between age brackets and responses were mixed, with no clear pattern.From theCambridge English Corpus Venality seems to have had one foot in the camp of abjectcronyism, and the other in that of rampant commercialism.From theCambridge English Corpus The second component, merit-based utilitarianism, greatly overlaps with concepts of fairness as a means to promote utility and suppresscronyism.From theCambridge English Corpus Corruption,cronyismand subordination of the criminal justice system to the executive all increased under the pressures of the armed conflict.From theCambridge English Corpus His arrest also affected the 1999 election in which the opposition gained much public support due to issues of corruption,cronyism, and nepotism.From theCambridge English Corpus But municipal control opens the door tocronyismand parochialism, as it did before.From theCambridge English Corpus The process of selection and promotion of researchers and professors at both university and public research centers is flawed bycronyismand nepotism.From theCambridge English Corpus Even in the absence ofcronyism, however, it may not be assumed that schools founded by great leaders will continue to thrive.From theCambridge English Corpus 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.From theCambridge English Corpus It is therefore clear that corporate reform is at the core of the programme for the elimination of corruption, pervasivecronyism, and rent seeking.From theCambridge English Corpus As mentioned earlier, it was a question ofcronyism/nepotism versus utilitarianism/meritocracy.From theCambridge English Corpus Cooperation avoidance, fragmentation, partitioning, by-passing, misunderstanding, discretionary intervention, lack of co-operation,cronyism, are, just to mention a few, current practices.From theCambridge English Corpus Such land redistribution as did occur was widely seen as marred bycronyism, corruption, and incompetence.From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. #https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/cronyism## |