c 3 r 1 o 1 n 1 y 4 i 1 s 1 m 3
8 letters · 15 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun favoritism shown to friends and associates (as by appointing them to positions without regard for their qualifications)
originFrom crony (“close friend”) + -ism (suffix forming names of a tendency of action, behaviour, condition, opinion, or state belonging to a class or group of persons).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
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