- 1裙帶關係；任人唯親（較文）。台灣口語多說裙帶關係。
Nepotism is when someone in power gives the good jobs, the contracts, or the easy path to their own family, instead of to the person who earned it. It is an accusing word: you say it when you think the choice was unfair. Offices, governments, and old family firms all get accused of it. The feeling is “they got it because they are family, not because they are best”. Though actually, helping family is normal in many places, and people argue about where looking after your own ends and nepotism begins. The word has a church history: it comes from Latin for nephew, because popes used to make relatives — most often nephews — into cardinals.
組成From French népotisme, from Italian nepotismo, from Latin nepōs (nephew). Named for the old papal habit of making relatives, most often nephews, into cardinals.
同家族的字
- nephewsame Latin nepōs, nephew / descendant
- nepotisticthe adjective: of that unfair family-favouring
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
nepotismnoun/ˈnɛp.ə.tɪ.zəm/
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The favoring of relatives (most strictly) or also personal friends (more broadly) because of their relationship rather than because of their abilities.
- Nepotism can get you very far in the world if you've got the right connections.
- Now retailers even demand deslotting or failure fees, a penalty for trial products that fail to meet their sales objectives. The struggle over display space heavily favors the incumbents and encourages what might be called brand nepotism.
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