Today’s “Word of the Day” is “chumocracy” and it is a noun meaning “a political system or government in which powerful people will have their close friends in powerful positions; cronyism. (chum means a close friend)”.
Example Sentence: Under the cover of an emergency, the government awarded £18bn in coronavirus-related contracts during the first six months of the pandemic, most with no competitive tendering processes. Meanwhile, contracts totalling £1.5bn have gone to companies with connections to the Conservative party. Call it a “chumocracy” or straightforward incompetence: it’s clear there’s been a woeful lack of transparency when it comes to how taxpayers’ money is spent.
This word is present in The Guardian article The Tories’ ‘chumocracy’ over Covid contracts is destroying public trust and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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