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Having created a business that is a success, when you are in a nepotistic situation, people who don't do anything themselves, well, it is easy for them to say it's never good enough.
Vikram Chatwal

Meaning of "nepotistic" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF NEPOTISTIC

nepotistic  [ˌnɛpəˈtɪstɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF NEPOTISTIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Nepotistic is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES NEPOTISTIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Nepotism

Nepotism is favoritism granted in politics or business to relatives. The term originated with the assignment of nephews to cardinal positions by Catholic popes and bishops. Nepotism is found in the fields of politics, entertainment, business and religion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH NEPOTISTIC


absolutistic
ˌæbsəluːˈtɪstɪk
anabaptistic
ˌænəbæpˈtɪstɪk
artistic
ɑːˈtɪstɪk
autistic
ɔːˈtɪstɪk
chrematistic
ˌkriːməˈtɪstɪk
donatistic
ˌdəʊnəˈtɪstɪk
egotistic
ˌiːɡəˈtɪstɪk
hypnotistic
ˌhɪpnəˈtɪstɪk
inartistic
ˌɪnɑːˈtɪstɪk
nonartistic
ˌnɒnɑːˈtɪstɪk
pietistic
ˌpaɪɪˈtɪstɪk
pragmatistic
ˌpræɡməˈtɪstɪk
protistic
prəʊˈtɪstɪk
quietistic
ˌkwaɪəˈtɪstɪk
Scotistic
skəʊˈtɪstɪk
separatistic
ˌsɛpərəˈtɪstɪk
statistic
stəˈtɪstɪk
syncretistic
ˌsɪŋkrɪˈtɪstɪk
synoptistic
ˌsɪnɒpˈtɪstɪk
unartistic
ˌʌnɑːˈtɪstɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE NEPOTISTIC

nephroscope
nephroscopy
nephrosis
nephrostome
nephrotic
nephrotomies
nephrotomy
nephrotoxic
nephrotoxicity
Nephtali
nepionic
nepit
Nepos
nepotic
nepotism
nepotist
Neptune
Neptunian
neptunium
neptunium series

WORDS THAT END LIKE NEPOTISTIC

anachronistic
ballistic
characteristic
deterministic
domestic
futuristic
heuristic
holistic
journalistic
linguistic
logistic
mechanistic
minimalistic
optimistic
probabilistic
realistic
sadistic
simplistic
stylistic
synergistic
unrealistic

Synonyms and antonyms of nepotistic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «nepotistic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF NEPOTISTIC

Find out the translation of nepotistic to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of nepotistic from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «nepotistic» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

裙带关系
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

nepotista
570 millions of speakers

English

nepotistic
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

nepotistic
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المحابين
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

семейственного
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

nepotismo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

স্বজনপোষক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

népotisme
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Nepotist
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Vetternwirtschaft
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

縁故主義の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

nepotistic
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nepotist
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nepotistic
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

nepotist
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

नेपोस्टिस्ट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

akrabasını kayıran kimse
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

nepotista
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nepotystycznego
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

сімейність
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

nepotistic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

nepotistic
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

nepotistic
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

nepotism
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

nepotistiske
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of nepotistic

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «NEPOTISTIC»

The term «nepotistic» is normally little used and occupies the 126.440 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «NEPOTISTIC» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about nepotistic

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QUOTES WITH «NEPOTISTIC»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word nepotistic.
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Vikram Chatwal
Having created a business that is a success, when you are in a nepotistic situation, people who don't do anything themselves, well, it is easy for them to say it's never good enough.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NEPOTISTIC»

Discover the use of nepotistic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to nepotistic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Nepotistic Nosiness: Inclusive Fitness and Vigilance of ...
Four studies presented in this dissertation tested these novel predictions.
Jason Paul Faulkner, 2007
2
Second Nature: Economic Origins of Human Evolution
Without really being aware of it, human beings economically interact under two distinct routines - nepotistic exchange and market exchange - effortlessly switching back and forth between the two regimes. The tendency to turn on and off two ...
Haim Ofek, 2001
3
Nepotism in Organizations
Regarding the antecedents, it would be of interest to study possible individual differences and situational circumstances that may cause people to engage in a nepotistic job search. Regarding individual differences, based on Stout and Iones  ...
Robert G. Jones, 2012
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Macaque Societies: A Model for the Study of Social Organization
intragroup contest competition is expected to always generate well-defined patterns of nepotistic alliances and produce matrilineal dominance structures. ln a more recent version of this model, Sterck and collaborators t1997) termed the ...
Bernard Thierry, Mewa Singh, Werner Kaumanns, 2004
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Ecology and Evolution of Cooperative Breeding in Birds
Such nepotistic alarm calling is known for several species of mammals (Sherman 1977, 1985; Hoogland 1983; Cheney and Seyfarth 1985). In birds, Siberian jay parents provide protection by being more vigilant in the company of their ...
Walter D. Koenig, Janis L. Dickinson, 2004
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The Monkeys of Stormy Mountain: 60 Years of Primatological ...
Three factors are of particular importance to fully understand the limits of nepotism, because these variables can negatively influence the deployment of nepotistic behaviours toward distant genetic kindred beyond the motheroffspring genetic ...
Jean-Baptiste Leca, Michael A. Huffman, Paul L. Vasey, 2012
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Macachiavellian Intelligence: How Rhesus Macaques and Humans ...
Among all of the monkeys and apes, rhesus macaques have the quintessential despotic and nepotistic society, mainly because of the despotic and nepotistic relationships rhesus females have with one another. Humans can be quite flexible ...
Dario Maestripieri, 2008
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The Biology of Moral Systems
Immediate payback 4. b. Delayed payback 4. Via indirect reciprocity 5. a. Immediate payback 6. b. Delayed payback II. Reproductive effort A. Mating effort 7. 1. Directly nepotistic (no social mediation) 2. Indirectly nepotistic (social mediation) a.
Richard D. Alexander, 1987
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Human Social Evolution: The Foundational Works of Richard D. ...
Reproductive effort Altruistic Selfish A. Mating effort I. Directly nepotistic (no social mediation) 2. Indirectly nepotistic (social mediation) a. Via direct reciprocity (1) Immediate payback (2) Delayed payback b. Via indirect reciprocity (1) Immediate  ...
Kyle Summers, Bernard Crespi, 2013
10
Survival Strategies: Cooperation and Conflict in Animal ...
This problem became really acute with the advent of sociobiology and the interpretation of animal behavior as nepotistic. Are animals being consciously nepotistic? For those who tend to draw moral lessons from animalbehavior, itsomehow ...
Raghavendra Gadagkar, 1997

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NEPOTISTIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term nepotistic is used in the context of the following news items.
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Greece has two choices. And so do the creditors
... the state as such, have always been fragmented, deeply inefficient and in the service of clientelist, corrupt and nepotistic deals and practices. «Open Democracy, Jul 15»
2
Are NFL Players Beginning to Value Their Brains More Than the …
The bar was low, however, since the previous attempt at addressing the issue involved the nepotistic appointment of a physician with no ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
3
Why China Wants a Jeb-vs.-Hillary Race
One can't help but notice the potential juxtaposition that state media could be setting up: As U.S. leaders are becoming more nepotistic and ... «Politico, Jul 15»
4
THOUGHTS ON THE BOOK KAIRABA
His fellow PPP members and elected representatives were as a whole selfish, nepotistic and corrupt to the core. Omar Jallow (OJ) was the ... «Freedom Newspaper, Jul 15»
5
Booysens train crash result of 'substandard rail maintenance'
“It is irresponsible of Metrorail to side-line experienced, qualified and skilled personell and to use nepotistic and corrupt suppliers who use ... «The Citizen, Jul 15»
6
Book and Audiobook Review: 'Ancillary Justice' by Ann Leckie
... dominate a system of perverted testing apparati and nepotistic arrangements couched in corporate lingo. It's a fascinating, if somewhat bleak, ... «The Independent | SUindependent.com, Jul 15»
7
Napoleon: Good or Bad? It's Not So Simple
... incompetence of the EU, the question of course is not whether he was anywhere near perfect, or whether he was a nepotistic oligarch or not. «Algemeiner, Jul 15»
8
Go Figure, Bill Burr Thinks Conor McGregor Is A C**t
Bill Burr is hardly the ethnic nepotistic type. He could care less about where you're from, how you look, how you talk, etc. That being said, we ... «SportsGrid, Jul 15»
9
Fighting, & Writing, The Fire
Since the nepotistic Tammany regime in New York, Otis writes, Irish-American men have held an overwhelming majority of, and sense of ... «New Haven Independent, Jul 15»
10
Of Political Tarts with Hearts and the Globalist Boot of Orthodoxy
... entails as a long term objective; spite of the short term 'profit' promising to temporarily stuff all orifices (of the 16%) material and nepotistic? «CounterPunch, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Nepotistic [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/nepotistic>. May 2024 ».
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