Explore Crony through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like buddy or brother. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Crony meaning
- A close friend.
- A trusted companion or partner in a criminal organization.
Using Crony
- The main meaning on this page is: A close friend. | A trusted companion or partner in a criminal organization.
- Useful related words include: buddy, brother, chum, pal.
- In the example corpus, crony often appears in combinations such as: crony capitalism, of crony, and crony.
Context around Crony
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 9 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Crony
- In this selection, "crony" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, government, putin, close, capitalism, capitalist and finance stand out and add context to how "crony" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a putin crony and the and and his crony capitalist friends. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "crony" sits close to words such as abated, aberrations and abolitionists, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with crony
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Crony capitalism, I believe it's called. (7 words)
That is not capitalism but crony capitalism. (7 words)
Now the crony politicians are fighting back. (7 words)
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. (37 words)
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. (36 words)
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. (35 words)
Or which close crony you think might launch the next mutiny and have their troops march on Moscow? (18 words)
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.
Common combinations with crony
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- crony capitalism 18×
- of crony 5×
- and crony 5×
- crony capitalists 5×
- the crony 5×
- crony capitalist 4×
- for crony 3×
- crony as 2×
- install crony 2×
- in crony 2×