Noun: nepotism
| Singular | nepotism |
| Plural | nepotisms |
Sample Sentences
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Nepotism can get you very far in the world if you've got the right connections.
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Now retailers even demand deslotting or failure fees, a penalty for trial products that fail to meet their sales objectives. The struggle over display space heavily favors the incumbents and encourages what might be called brand nepotism. [1989, Report on Business Magazine, volume 6, numbers 1-6, page 100:]
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Mr Chen - a member of the national politburo as well as the Shanghai boss - is accused of nepotism and corruption on a grand scale: protecting political allies, granting preferment to his family and looting Shanghai's pension fund. [2006 September 27, “China airbrushes Chen”, in Financial Times:]
Nouns inflected like nepotism
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French népotisme, from Italian nepotismo, from Latin nepōs (“nephew”), a reference to the practice of popes appointing relatives (most often nephews) as cardinals (cardinal-nephew) during the Middle Ages and Renaissance. See: French Nouns '
népotisme', Italian Nouns '
nepotismo', Latin Nouns '
nepōs'.