Usually means: Benefits gained from victory, conquest.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. spoils: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. spoils: Merriam-Webster
  3. spoils: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. spoils: Collins English Dictionary
  5. spoils: Vocabulary.com
  6. Spoils, spoils: Wordnik
  7. spoils: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. spoils: Wiktionary
  9. spoils: Dictionary.com
  10. spoils: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. The Spoils (Rome), The Spoils (Zola Jesus album), The Spoils (card game), The Spoils (song): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. spoils: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. spoils: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Spoils, spoils: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spoils: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spoils: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

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  1. spoils: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See spoil as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  That which is taken from another by violence; especially, the plunder taken from an enemy; pillage, booty.
noun:  Waste material left over in the course of excavation, construction, mining, or dredging operations.
noun:  Public offices and their benefits regarded as the peculiar property of a successful party or faction, to be bestowed for its own advantage.

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