spoil : Idioms & Phrases
Spoil bank
- a bank formed by the earth taken from an excavation, as of a canal.
Webster 1913
spoils system
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noun the system of employing and promoting civil servants who are friends and supporters of the group in power
WordNet
The spoils system
- the theory or practice of regarding public and their emoluments as so much plunder to be distributed among their active partisans by those who are chosen to responsible offices of administration.
