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Definition of Spoils
1. Noun. That which is taken from another by violence; especially, the plunder taken from an enemy; pillage; booty. ¹
2. Noun. Public offices and their benefits regarded as the peculiar property of a successful party or faction, to be bestowed for its own advantage; -- commonly in the plural; as ¹
3. Verb. (third-person singular of ''spoil'') ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Spoils
1. spoil [v] - See also: spoil
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spoils
Literary usage of Spoils
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting (1902)
"The reason is, that under the spoils system of distributing offices the fitness
of the man ... You cannot do any good thing while the spoils system remains. ..."
2. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1907)
"In New York, before Tammany and before Andrew Jackson, was the beginning of the
spoils-system in the United States. Because of the influence of Burr, ..."
3. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"Say, ' What is with God is better than sport and than merchandise, for God is
the best of providers 1' THE CHAPTER OF THE spoils IN the name of the merciful ..."
4. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings ... Annual Forum by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, Conference of Charities (U.S., Conference of Charities (U.S.), National Conference of Social Work (U.S. (1899)
"Mr. President, Ladies, and Gentlemen,— I have no speech to make to you upon the
reform of the civil service or the abolition of the spoils system in ..."
5. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings [of The] Annual Meeting by Conference of Charities and Correction (U.S.), National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, National Conference of Social Work (U.S.) (1899)
"Mr. President, Ladies, and Gentlemen,— I have no speech to make to you upon the
reform of the civil service or the abolition of the spoils system in ..."
6. Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Epistle to the Hebrews by Albert Barnes (1857)
"T Gave the tenth of the spoils. Notes, ver. 2. The argument here is, ... The Greeks
were accustomed, after a battle, to collect the spoils together, ..."
7. The Civil Service and the Patronage by Carl Russell Fish (1904)
"THE spoils SYSTEM TRIUMPHANT. 1845-1865. As it was in the beginning Is to-day
... THE period from 1845 to 1865 marks the apogee of the spoils system in the ..."
8. The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare (1912)
"Their presence is the only thing that spoils the end of the comedy. 2'Jessica,
greedy to the last, tries to snatch the letter from Nerissa, ..."
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