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: --
He and a few of his more easily led cronies swagger around the estate and threaten those vulnerable enough not to be in a position to fight back.
On the other hand, we do not publish these things in the newspapers so that he and his cronies know in advance that he is likely to be arrested.
However, it turned out that the chairman of the consultants—of the medical panel—had done his own thing and consulted one or two cronies.
They were also a self-perpetuating oligarchy with well-used procedures of co-option from among golf club cronies.
I suppose that cronies will be appointed for that purpose, or else someone in the system will do it.
What about the other cronies who have managed to get on to the list of candidates for my party?
I fully take the point that we do not want the appointment of cronies.
Much as one would like to think that this world is full of cronies, it is not.
