Usually means: Advocate for patronage and nepotism.
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  1. spoilsman: Merriam-Webster
  2. spoilsman: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. spoilsman: Collins English Dictionary
  4. spoilsman: Wordnik
  5. spoilsman: Wiktionary
  6. spoilsman: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. spoilsman: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. spoilsman: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Spoilsman, spoilsman: Dictionary.com
  10. Spoilsman: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. spoilsman: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Spoilsman: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. spoilsman: FreeDictionary.org
  14. spoilsman: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  (US) A politician who serves only for a share of the spoils.

Similar:
spoilsport, spoilee, spoliator, porkmeister, spendocrat, boodler, spoil-sport, splurger, politician, scrounger, more...

Opposite:
reformer, idealist, altruist

Adjectives:
political, notorious, inveterate, typical, modern, practical, chief, old, supreme, rascally, corrupt

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Similar:
spoilsport, spoilee, spoliator, porkmeister, spendocrat, boodler, spoil-sport, splurger, politician, scrounger, more...

Opposite:
reformer, idealist, altruist

Adjectives:
political, notorious, inveterate, typical, modern, practical, chief, old, supreme, rascally, corrupt



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