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spoilsman

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spoils=man

CIDE DICTIONARY

spoilsmann. 
     One who serves a cause or a party for a share of the spoils; in United States politics, one who makes or recognizes a demand for public office on the ground of partisan service; also, one who sanctions such a policy in appointments to the public service.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

spoilsman, n. (pl. -men) US esp. Polit.
1 an advocate of the spoils system.
2 a person who seeks to profit by it.


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