"favouritism" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-favouritism.wav Forms: favouritisms [plural]
Etymology: From favourite + -ism. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|favourite|ism}} favourite + -ism Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} favouritism (countable and uncountable, plural favouritisms)
  1. (British spelling) The unfair favouring of one person or group at the expense of another. Tags: UK, countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Corruption Synonyms: favoritism [US] Translations (unfair favouring): تَفْضِيل (tafḍīl) [masculine] (Arabic), favoritisme [masculine] (Catalan), 偏愛 (Chinese Mandarin), 偏爱 (piān'ài) (Chinese Mandarin), 得寵 (Chinese Mandarin), 得宠 (déchǒng) (Chinese Mandarin), 偏袒 (piāntǎn) (Chinese Mandarin), protekce [feminine] (Czech), nadržování [neuter] (Czech), suosinta (Finnish), favoritisme [masculine] (French), Günstlingswirtschaft [feminine] (German), Vetternwirtschaft [feminine] (German), ευνοιοκρατία (evnoiokratía) [feminine] (Greek), φαβοριτισμός (favoritismós) [masculine] (Greek), pilih kasih (Indonesian), fabhraíocht [feminine] (Irish), fabhar [masculine] (Irish), favoritismo [masculine] (Italian), mariutanga (Maori), faworyzowanie [neuter] (Polish), favoritismo [masculine] (Portuguese), favoritism [neuter] (Romanian), фаворити́зм (favoritízm) [masculine] (Russian), кумовство́ (kumovstvó) [neuter] (Russian), favoritismo [masculine] (Spanish), favorisering [common-gender] (Swedish), paboritismo (Tagalog), adam kayırmacılık (Turkish), ffafriaeth [feminine] (Welsh)

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.