Term: cronyism: favoritism shown to friends and associates (as by appointing them to positions without regard for their qualifications)
Candidate hypernym: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples → 1
Candidate hypernym: military pace: the length of a single step in marching (taken to be 30 inches for quick time or 36 inches for double time) → 0
Candidate hypernym: garden pea: the flattened to cylindric inflated multi-seeded fruit of the common pea plant → 0
Candidate hypernym: selling race: a horse race in which the winning horse must be put up for auction → 0
Candidate hypernym: genus mutisia: genus of South American shrubs or lianas having large flower heads with feathery pappuses → 0
Candidate hypernym: running shoe: a light comfortable shoe designed for running → 0
Candidate hypernym: april: the month following March and preceding May → 0
Candidate hypernym: rain check: a promise that an unaccepted offer will be renewed in the future → 0
Candidate hypernym: infatuation: an object of extravagant short-lived passion → 0
Candidate hypernym: naval missile: naval weaponry consisting of a missile carried on a warship → 0
Candidate hypernym: superbug: a strain of bacteria that is resistant to all antibiotics → 0