favouritism

English

Alternative forms

• favoritism (US)

Etymology

From favourite +‎ -ism.

Pronunciation

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Noun

favouritism (countable and uncountable, plural favouritisms)

1. (British spelling) The unfair favouring of one person or group at the expense of another.
   • 2024 December 27, Tom Edwards, “Network News: Can success in the capital transfer to the wider stage?”, in RAIL, number 1025, page 19:

     Heidi Alexander has experience of London. As Transport Secretary, she will also be under pressure not to show favouritism to the capital.

Translations

unfair favouring

• Arabic: تَفْضِيل m (tafḍīl)
• Catalan: favoritisme m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 偏愛 / 偏爱 (zh) (piān'ài), 得寵 / 得宠 (zh) (déchǒng), 偏袒 (zh) (piāntǎn)

• Czech: protekce f, nadržování n
• Dutch: favoritisme (nl) n, vriendjespolitiek (nl) f
• Finnish: suosinta (fi)
• French: favoritisme (fr) m
• German: Günstlingswirtschaft (de) f, Vetternwirtschaft (de) f
• Greek: ευνοιοκρατία (el) f (evnoiokratía), φαβοριτισμός (el) m (favoritismós)
• Indonesian: pilih kasih (id)
• Irish: fabhraíocht f, fabhar m
• Italian: favoritismo (it) m
• Maori: mariutanga
• Polish: faworyzowanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: favoritismo (pt) m
• Romanian: favoritism (ro) n
• Russian: фаворити́зм (ru) m (favoritízm), кумовство́ (ru) n (kumovstvó)
• Spanish: favoritismo (es) m
• Swedish: favorisering (sv) c
• Tagalog: paboritismo
• Turkish: adam kayırmacılık
• Welsh: ffafriaeth f