spoils system

1. 1.

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

   Antonymsmerit system

   Broadersystem

Questions about spoils system

What does spoils system mean?

spoils system means "the system of employing and promoting civil servants who are friends and supporters of the group in power".

What is the opposite of spoils system?

The recorded antonyms are merit system.

Is spoils system a common word?

spoils system is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.