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say it: NEP-uh-tiz-uhm
nepotism is a noun meaning "favoritism shown to relatives or close friends by those in power (as by giving them jobs)". It carries one recorded sense.
favoritism shown to relatives or close friends by those in power (as by giving them jobs)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for nepotism come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.