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noun • favoritism shown to relatives or close friends by those in power (as by giving them jobs) | ||||||||
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32% | 8 | Postmen or mailmen who deliver letters and packages | ||||||
noun • someone whose employment involves carrying something • a self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something • a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings • an inactive substance that is a vehicle for a radioactive tracer of the same substance and that assists in its recovery after some chemical reaction • a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages • a radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal • a man who delivers the mail • a boy who delivers newspapers • (medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others • a rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like • (genetics) an organism that possesses a recessive gene whose effect is masked by a dominant allele; the associated trait is not apparent but can be passed on to offspring | ||||||||
Wicked Postmen Covering Up Setters Favouritism Crossword Clue
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NEPOTISM which was last seen in the The Guardian Quiptic crossword.
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NEPOTISM
Updated: October 15, 2023
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