0 US spelling of favouritism
1 unfair support shown to one person or group, esp. by someone in authority:
Monks who inhabit the challenger role should not submit to favoritism or succumb to discrimination.
His appointment, they argued, reflected favoritism, circumventing the rules, and by implication, the politics of hospitality (a dominant tribal process).
He also attempted to elaborate a control mechanism that would prevent political favoritism from inf luencing economic activities under taken by the government.
Managing such equity-efficiency trade-offs on the basis of intuition is unsatisfactory in a democracy, as it arouses suspicions of special pleading and favoritism toward vested interests.
A problem associated with that procedure is establishing objectivity of the selection procedure, when submission is not possible and invitation may reflect unintended favoritism or bias.
Given the favoritism inherent in the patent system, to focus on patents as a way of calibrating and evaluating research means that applied research (as defined in law) is prioritized.
This form of regulation sti-ed price competition among retailers and was viewed as a form of governmental favoritism of select groups of already very powerful producers.
Here again, suspicions of favoritism may arise.
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