Synonyms for crony
ˈkroʊ nicrony

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1. crony

   Synonyms:
   ally, chum, mate

   Antonyms:
   foe, rival, backfriend

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1. buddy, brother, chum, crony, pal, sidekicknoun

   a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities

   Synonyms:
   chum, buddy, chum salmon, brother, blood brother, sidekick, comrade, pal

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1. cronynoun

   Synonyms:
   [Colloquial.] associate, intimate friend, bosom friend, bosom companion

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1. cronynoun

   Synonyms:
   bosom friend, intimate, associate, chum

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1. List of paraphrases for "crony":

   sidekick, favouritism

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1. Pat Toomey:

   The EX-IM Bank represents crony capitalism at its worst, providing taxpayer-financed giveaways to large corporations and foreign governments like China, the bank has a history of forcing American taxpayers to support loans to the Export-Import Bank of China and even the Bank of China itself.

2. Carly Fiorina:

   Every policy she is pursuing will make income inequality worse, not better, crony capitalism even worse, not better. And meanwhile, we will continue to crush the businesses that create jobs and middle-class families.

3. Bernie Sanders:

   I believe in fair market, American capitalism and that is a big difference between Secretary Clinton's Wall Street crony capitalism and Senator Sanders' socialism.

4. Carly Fiorina:

   Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren is right : crony capitalism is alive and well, government and government programs have grown so big, so powerful, so costly and so complex that only the big and the powerful can prosper. But Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren is dead wrong about how to end crony capitalism. You see, whether it is Dodd-Frank, Obamacare or net neutrality, all this government complexity means the big get bigger, the small disappear, and the powerless are trapped.

5. Doug Sachtleben:

   We intentionally asked them about this, to test where they stood on crony capitalism.