Term: patronage: (politics) granting favors or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support
Broader: social control: control exerted (actively or passively) by group action | Unrelated: disk harrow: a harrow with a series of disks set on edge at an angle
Broader: social control: control exerted (actively or passively) by group action | Unrelated: coccygeal vertebra: one of 4 vertebrae in the human coccyx
Broader: social control: control exerted (actively or passively) by group action | Unrelated: study: a composition intended to develop one aspect of the performer's technique
Broader: social control: control exerted (actively or passively) by group action | Unrelated: field judge: a football official
Broader: social control: control exerted (actively or passively) by group action | Unrelated: steeplejack: someone who builds or maintains very tall structures
Broader: social control: control exerted (actively or passively) by group action | Unrelated: handling cost: the cost of handling (especially the cost of packaging and mailing an order)
Broader: social control: control exerted (actively or passively) by group action | Unrelated: mescal bean: shrub or small tree having pinnate leaves poisonous to livestock and dense racemes of intensely fragrant blue flowers and red beans
Broader: social control: control exerted (actively or passively) by group action | Unrelated: bundling: the act of shoving hastily
Broader: social control: control exerted (actively or passively) by group action | Unrelated: iliamna: small genus of perennial herbs or subshrubs; some often placed in other genera
Broader: social control: control exerted (actively or passively) by group action | Unrelated: almond willow: Old World willow with light green leaves cultivated for use in basketry