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"ref": "1974 September 19, Lawrence W[arren] Pierce, United States District Judge, “Memorandum Opinion and Order”, in John R. Patterson, et al., Plaintiffs, v Newspaper and Mail Deliverers’ Union of New York and Vicinity, et al., Defendants. […], page 23a",
"text": "[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, […]",
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"ref": "1988, Norman H. Clark, “Booze and Politics, 1933–83”, in The Dry Years: Prohibition and Social Change in Washington, revised edition, Seattle, Wash., London: University of Washington Press, page 258",
"text": "[Robert L.] Hagist began what he called an \"18 month reform program\" that included revised warehouse procedures and measures to prevent the leakages, shortages, cronyisms, and politicking attributed to the managers and clerks of the various stores.",
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"ref": "1990 April 4, Dick Armey, witness, Hearing on the Reauthorization of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Humanities: Hearings before the Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, Second Session […] (Serial No. 101-78), volume 3, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 35",
"text": "If we are going to reauthorize the National Endowment, we need to see to it that the Endowment, in its procedures, are open, one. […] That there is a cessation of a long-term practice of cronyisms on the panels so that artists across the Nation have equal access to this.",
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"ref": "2013 April, Randall G[regory] Holcombe, Andrea M. Castillo, “Communism”, in Liberalism and Cronyism: Two Rival Political and Economic Systems, Mercatus Center at George Mason University, page 31",
"text": "[C]ommunism is predicated upon a central structure of economic command that is singularly entrusted with allocating resources and making economic decisions. Because of this centralized command structure, communist societies fall prey to the forces of cronyism and influence-peddling as commune members without economic power curry favor with commune leaders that control access to resources.",
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"ref": "2015, Thomas J. Gradel, Dick Simpson, “Suburban Scandals”, in Corrupt Illinois: Patronage, Cronyism, and Criminality, Urbana; Chicago, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, page 117",
"text": "Patronage, nepotism, cronyism, abuse of power, and criminal activity flourish, sometimes for decades, in numerous town halls, police stations, and special-purpose government agencies in the suburbs.",
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"roman": "wāsiṭa",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
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"feminine"
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"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"word": "裙帶關係"
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"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"word": "裙带关系"
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"roman": "rènrénwéiqīn",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"word": "任人唯亲"
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"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
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"feminine"
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"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
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"feminine"
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"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"word": "kronyismi"
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"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"word": "hyvä veli -järjestelmä"
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"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"word": "ystävien suosiminen"
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"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
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"masculine"
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"word": "copinage"
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"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
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"masculine"
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
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"_dis1": "94 6",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "kronizmi",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"word": "ქრონიზმი"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "Ämterpatronage"
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"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
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"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
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"roman": "anaxiokratía",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "αναξιοκρατία"
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"roman": "dostavād",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"word": "दोस्तवाद"
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"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"word": "adok-kapok"
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"_dis1": "94 6",
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"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"word": "protekció"
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"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"word": "kronisme"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
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"masculine"
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"alt": "えんじゃびいき",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "enjabīki",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"word": "縁者贔屓"
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"_dis1": "94 6",
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "sɑmlañ niyum",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"word": "សម្លាញ់និយម"
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{
"_dis1": "94 6",
"alt": "情實主義",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "jeongsiljuui",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"word": "정실주의"
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"_dis1": "94 6",
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"roman": "vŕski",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
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"feminine",
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"word": "вр́ски"
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"_dis1": "94 6",
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"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "kronízam",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "крони́зам"
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"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "непоти́зам"
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"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"word": "kronisme"
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"lang": "Mingrelian",
"roman": "kronizmi",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"word": "ქრონიზმი"
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"_dis1": "94 6",
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"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
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"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
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{
"_dis1": "94 6",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "band-e \"pe\"",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"word": "بند «پ»"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 6",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "dust-gomâri",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"word": "دوستگماری"
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"_dis1": "94 6",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "pârti-bâzi",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"word": "پارتی بازی"
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"_dis1": "94 6",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "kolesiostwo"
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"_dis1": "94 6",
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"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "kumoterstwo"
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"_dis1": "94 6",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "amiguismo"
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"_dis1": "94 6",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "fisiologismo"
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"_dis1": "94 6",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"_dis1": "94 6",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kronízm",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "крони́зм"
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"_dis1": "94 6",
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "blat",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "блат"
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{
"_dis1": "94 6",
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"roman": "kumovstvó",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "кумовство́"
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"_dis1": "94 6",
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"roman": "nepotízm",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
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"masculine"
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"_dis1": "94 6",
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"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "amiguismo"
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"_dis1": "94 6",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"tags": [
"Mexico",
"feminine"
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"word": "cuatitud"
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"_dis1": "94 6",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"topics": [
"politics",
"government"
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"word": "dedocracia"
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"_dis1": "94 6",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "enchufismo"
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"_dis1": "94 6",
"code": "es",
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"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"_dis1": "94 6",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "influyentismo"
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"_dis1": "94 6",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"word": "kronism"
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"_dis1": "94 6",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
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"word": "nepotism"
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"_dis1": "94 6",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"tags": [
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"word": "svågerpolitik"
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"_dis1": "94 6",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"tags": [
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"word": "vänskapskorruption"
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{
"_dis1": "94 6",
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"word": "kroniismo"
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{
"_dis1": "94 6",
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"word": "kronismo"
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{
"_dis1": "94 6",
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"word": "kroniyismo"
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"_dis1": "94 6",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"word": "ahbap çavuş ilişkisi"
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"_dis1": "94 6",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "kronizm",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"word": "кронізм"
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"_dis1": "94 6",
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"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "kumívstvo",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
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"neuter"
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"word": "кумі́вство"
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"_dis1": "94 6",
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"roman": "dostavād",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"word": "احباب پروری"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 6",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"word": "chủ nghĩa thân hữu"
}
]
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"_dis": "55 45",
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"Politics",
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"ref": "1829 June 26, Robert Taylor, “Characterism of Leeds”, in The Lion, volume III, number 26, London: Richard Carlile, […], →OCLC, page 813",
"text": "[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.",
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"word": "кумовство́"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nepotízm",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "непоти́зм"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "amiguismo"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"tags": [
"Mexico",
"feminine"
],
"word": "cuatitud"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"topics": [
"politics",
"government"
],
"word": "dedocracia"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "enchufismo"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "favoritismo"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "influyentismo"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"word": "kronism"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "nepotism"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "svågerpolitik"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "vänskapskorruption"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"word": "kroniismo"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"word": "kronismo"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"word": "kroniyismo"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"word": "ahbap çavuş ilişkisi"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "kronizm",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"word": "кронізм"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "kumívstvo",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "кумі́вство"
},
{
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"roman": "dostavād",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"word": "احباب پروری"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "favouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications",
"word": "chủ nghĩa thân hữu"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "ability or inclination to make friends",
"word": "kyky saada ystäviä"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Charles Jameson Grant",
"Tolpuddle Martyrs"
],
"word": "cronyism"
}
{
"called_from": "page/2386",
"msg": "inconsistent language codes nb vs no in translation item: 't' {1: 'no', 2: 'nepotisme', 3: 'm'}",
"path": [
"cronyism",
"t"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "cronyism",
"trace": ""
}
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