Usually means: Preferential treatment for certain individuals.
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  1. favouritism: Collins English Dictionary
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  3. Favouritism, favouritism: Wordnik
  4. favouritism: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. favouritism: Wiktionary
  6. favouritism: Dictionary.com
  7. favouritism: Rhymezone
  8. favouritism: FreeDictionary.org
  9. favouritism: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. favouritism: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. favouritism: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. favouritism: Legal dictionary

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▸ noun:  (British spelling) The unfair favouring of one person or group at the expense of another.

Similar:
discrimination, favoritism, misfavour, disfavor, disfavour, jobs for the boys, misfavor, victor's justice, unfairness, thumb on the scale, more...

Opposite:
impartiality, fairness, neutrality, objectivity

Phrases:
show favouritism, more...

Adjectives:
political, ingroup, such, personal, group, undue, gross, ethnic, alleged, blatant, much

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Similar:
discrimination, favoritism, misfavour, disfavor, disfavour, jobs for the boys, misfavor, victor's justice, unfairness, thumb on the scale, more...

Opposite:
impartiality, fairness, neutrality, objectivity

Phrases:
show favouritism, more...

Adjectives:
political, ingroup, such, personal, group, undue, gross, ethnic, alleged, blatant, much



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