0 a friend, or a person who works for someone in authority, especially one who is willing to give and receive dishonest help:
1 a close friend or companion, esp. someone who may not be honest:
As we have said before, this is not a straightforward privatisation, but a deal made behind closed doors—a cronies' deal made in smoke-filled rooms.
They came up with the disgraceful formula of stuffing the committee with their own political and business cronies.
Denationalisation is so urgent that he is tripping over himself to buy shares, and his cronies are doing the same.
He does not protect whistleblowers—he protects his own cronies and himself.
To replace an admittedly imperfect system with one that is worse—a system of cronies and appointed patronage—cannot be right.
When asked to choose between high standards of government and the low politics of his cronies, he has unerringly chosen the latter.
The entrepreneur who was running them had appointed his cronies as trustees of the pension fund, and ran off with the money.
Much as one would like to think that this world is full of cronies, it is not.
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