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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
favouritism
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And they blamed the finance Ministry's favouritism towards industry for the plight - and the restiveness - of the peasantry.
▪ Anyone who does wrong will be repaid for his wrong, and there is no favouritism.
▪ Marjorie never felt that there was any favouritism shown to her.
▪ Patients and their carers would have a realistic choice freed from fears of favouritism and unfair influence.
▪ She was clever enough to know that any moves she made which might lead to accusations of favouritism from above could backfire.
▪ There were many cases of theft, misappropriation, and favouritism which tended to destroy confidence in officialdom in general.
Wiktionary
favouritism

alt. (context British English) The unfair favouring of one person or group at the expense of another. n. (context British English) The unfair favouring of one person or group at the expense of another.

WordNet
favouritism

  1. n. an inclination to favor some person or group [syn: favoritism]

  2. unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice [syn: discrimination, favoritism]

Usage examples of "favouritism".

Terrible away, as shabby a piece of favouritism and jobbery as the service has ever known.

The field is surrounded by a brick wall, and the owner undertook to put up three other brick walls, so that the neighbours should not be overlooked by each other, but the four tenants insist that there shall be no favouritism, and that each shall have exactly the same length of wall space for his wall fruit trees.