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Cronyism is the habit of giving the best jobs, contracts, or favours to your friends when you are in a position of power — and people say it to show they . It names a whole way of behaving, not one friendship. You hear it when a minister’s old roommate suddenly runs a public project, or when a boss only promotes the people who drink with them. It sits near “corruption,” though actually nobody needs to pass a bag of money: the is that friendship itself is being used as a ticket. It is about friends, not family.
任用親信（有權以後把好位子留給自己人。跟「裙帶關係」不同：裙帶多指親戚）
組成crony (“close friend”) + -ism (a suffix that names a habit, system, or way of behaving).
同家族的字
- cronythe friend; cronyism is the practice of looking after cronies
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
cronyismnoun/ˈkɹəʊnɪɪz(ə)m/
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derogatoryFavouritism to friends without regard for their qualifications; especially (politics), in their appointment to political positions.
- [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, […]
- [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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obsoleteThe condition of being friends; friendship; also, the ability or inclination to make friends.
- [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.
- Our friend the Old Crony, we see, for all his connoisseurship and crony-ism, his regard for a certain piquancy of perfection in the French dress and walk, and his wish that his fair countrywomen would "take steps" after their fashion, cannot get rid of the preference in which he was brought up for the beauty of the English countenance.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。