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Crony meaning
A close friend. | A trusted companion or partner in a criminal organization.
Example sentences (20)
No government-crony finance specialists like Jamie Dimon and Larry Fink, and no crony-friendly government executives like Doug Burgum, need apply.
Crony capitalist money still flows profusely not only in the United States but globally to mobilize the world population for a crony capitalist mission.
According to her, India's corporate success is not a product of crony capitalism, but because India is no longer under the influence of crony socialism.
Crony capitalism index The Economist benchmarks countries based on a " crony-capitalism index " calculated via how much economic activity occurs in industries prone to cronyism.
Going through history, we can now tell there are three types of economic development: open-market capitalism, open-market capitalism with more social welfare, and Crony Capitalism.
Instead of an "in then out" set of doorways, it becomes an "in then up, dragging a crony onto the now-empty lower step" escalator.
It threatens the U.S. In 2018, the U.S. requested, and got, an Interpol Red Notice to try to apprehend Yevgeny Prigozhin, a Putin crony and the founder of Russia’s notorious mercenary Wagner Group.
Or which close crony you think might launch the next mutiny and have their troops march on Moscow?
Tharoor also targeted the Central government for ‘rampant crony capitalism’ and ‘accumulating wealth in the hands of a few friends of the Prime Minister’.
The larger the budget for whatever expenditures, the more is available for crony capitalism payoffs to business and politicians.
At the same time, to worsen this challenging situation, our leaders do not focus on priority themes such as (1) Reduction of power theft" (2) Demand Response Program, (3) Elimination of "tortoises" ("friends" crony projects) among others.
Crony capitalism, I believe it's called.
Hindutva, which advocates for the primacy of Hindu culture and identity in India, continues to shape political discourse and influence voter behaviours significantly but upholds the interests of crony capitalists.
Our government has granted online platforms an enticement which has, in effect, deputized them as the crony clique’s information gatekeepers.
Shortly after inauguration in 1969, Richard Nixon told Martin to resign so he could appoint Arthur Burns, a gifted economist but political crony, as chair.
That is not capitalism but crony capitalism.
That Narendra Modi talked up the market, an allegation made by his bête noire Rahul Gandhi, so that he and his crony capitalist friends would make money out of the gullible retail investors stretches credulity.
These efforts failed because legislators saw the measures for what they were: crony attempts to limit competition and prevent state residents from engaging in a harmless hobby.
This union victory had much more to do with crony capitalism and autoworkers voting to save their jobs than it did with any true expansion of unionization into the deep red South.
Now the crony politicians are fighting back.