cronyism, largesse, largess, cronies, jobbery, nepotism, pelf, preferment, tammany hall, fiefdom, venality, corruption, bureaucracy, patronization, incumbency, improvidence, sinecure, sycophancy, nomenklatura, kleptocracy, hirelings, coteries, unaccountability, aggrandizement, strongmen, appointees, auspices, mismanagement, featherbedding, favoritism, munificence, bootlicking, clout, satraps, squandermania, payoffs, odium, aristocracies, rulership, aegis, bagmen, placemen, potentate, hospitalities, tutelage, autocracy, bureacracy, tribalism, prestige, rascality, influence, bureaucrats, oligarchy, servility, loyalty, slush fund, whims, ward heeler, loyalists, subventions, machination, cabals, chairmanship, kith, perks, mendicancy, truckling, patrimonial, toadying, dispensation, warlords, sycophants, benevolence, inefficiency, prodigality, middlemen, corruptness, curry favor, baronies, incompetence, careerism, gerontocracy, ministership, subsidy, businessmen, godfathers, followership, cooptation, connivance, beneficence, boodle, factionalism, amirs, despots, princeling, sectionalism, gerrymandering, highhandedness, emoluments, racketeers, sleaze, extravagance, sponsorship, patrons, backing, patron, revenues, entourage, establishment, authority, help, patrimony, prerogatives, assistance, debt, initiative, corporatist, egalitarian, illiberal, majoritarian, socialist, suffrage, anarchical, consociational, liberal, oligarchical, socialistic, abolitionist, agrarian, anarchic, anarchistic, antichristian, called, clientelist, collectivist, communistic

custom, nomenklatura

custom, nomenklatura, patronised, patronized, patronless, unpatronised, unpatronized

approval, approving, blessing, business, depreciation, derogation, disparagement, foster, keep, maintain, nurture, people, social control, sustain

backing, business, championship, clientele, condescension, disdain, patronize, support, trade