Search Result for "spoils system":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

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



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

spoils system
    n 1: the system of employing and promoting civil servants who
         are friends and supporters of the group in power [ant:
         merit system]