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

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spoils of office collapse

nepotism collapse: favoritism shown to relatives or close friends by those in power (as by giving them jobs)

public trough collapse

boodle collapse: informal terms for money

booty collapse

stolen goods collapse

stylus collapse: a pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving; "he drew the design on the stencil with a steel stylus"; a sharp pointed device attached to the cartridge of a record player

jukebox collapse: a cabinet containing an automatic record player; records are played by inserting a coin

stereo collapse: reproducer in which two microphones feed two or more loudspeakers to give a three-dimensional effect to the sound; two photographs taken from slightly different angles that appear three-dimensional when viewed together

mono collapse: designating sound transmission or recording or reproduction over a single channel

monaural system collapse

Gramophone collapse: an antique record player; the sound of the vibrating needle is amplified acoustically

squawk box collapse: the loudspeaker on an intercom or public address system

sound truck collapse: a truck equipped with a loudspeaker and used for advertising

bitch box collapse

public address system collapse: an electronic amplification system used as a communication system in public areas

record player collapse: machine in which rotating records cause a stylus to vibrate and the vibrations are amplified acoustically or electronically

record changer collapse: an automatic mechanical device on a record player that causes new records to be played without manual intervention

intercom collapse

PA system collapse

Victrola collapse: a brand of gramophone

turntable collapse: a circular horizontal platform that rotates a phonograph record while it is being played; a rotatable platform with a track; used to turn locomotives and cars; a revolving tray placed on a dining table

phonograph collapse

tape recorder collapse: a magnetic recorder using magnetic tape

PA collapse

hi fi collapse

perks collapse

nickelodeon collapse

solar plexus collapse: a large plexus of sympathetic nerves in the abdomen behind the stomach

neuron collapse

synapse collapse: the junction between two neurons (axon-to-dendrite) or between a neuron and a muscle; "nerve impulses cross a synapse through the action of neurotransmitters"

spinal cord collapse: a major part of the central nervous system which conducts sensory and motor nerve impulses to and from the brain; a long tubelike structure extending from the base of the brain through the vertebral canal to the upper lumbar region

nervous system collapse: the sensory and control apparatus consisting of a network of nerve cells

perquisite collapse

algorithm collapse: a precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve some problem

ganglion collapse: an encapsulated neural structure consisting of a collection of cell bodies or neurons

graft collapse: the act of grafting something onto something else; (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient; cause to grow together parts from different plants; "graft the cherry tree branch onto the plum tree"

pickings collapse: the act of someone who picks up or takes something; "the pickings were easy"; "clothing could be had for the taking"

colonization collapse: the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies; "the British colonization of America"

pork barrel collapse: a legislative appropriation designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents

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