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SPOILS SYSTEM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spoils system mean? 

SPOILS SYSTEM (noun)
  The noun SPOILS SYSTEM has 1 sense:

1. the system of employing and promoting civil servants who are friends and supporters of the group in powerplay

  Familiarity information: SPOILS SYSTEM used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SPOILS SYSTEM (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The system of employing and promoting civil servants who are friends and supporters of the group in power

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("spoils system" is a kind of...):

system; system of rules (a complex of methods or rules governing behavior)

Antonym:

merit system (the system of employing and promoting civil servants on the basis of ability)


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