Antonyms of noun spoils_system

1 sense of spoils system

Sense 1
spoils system -- (the system of employing and promoting civil servants who are friends and supporters of the group in power)
       Antonym of merit system (Sense 1)
      => merit system -- (the system of employing and promoting civil servants on the basis of ability)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun spoils_system

1 sense of spoils system

Sense 1
spoils system -- (the system of employing and promoting civil servants who are friends and supporters of the group in power)
       => system, system of rules -- (a complex of methods or rules governing behavior; "they have to operate under a system they oppose"; "that language has a complex system for indicating gender")