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MERIT SYSTEM

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• MERIT SYSTEM (noun)
The noun MERIT SYSTEM has 1 sense:

1. the system of employing and promoting civil servants on the basis of ability

Familiarity information: MERIT SYSTEM used as a noun is very rare.

• MERIT SYSTEM (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The system of employing and promoting civil servants on the basis of ability

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("merit system" is a kind of...):

system; system of rules (a complex of methods or rules governing behavior)

Antonym:

spoils system (the system of employing and promoting civil servants who are friends and supporters of the group in power)

"You can't teach grandpa to suck eggs."
(English proverb)
"Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself."
(Native American proverb, Pima)
"Suspicion is the sister of the wrong."
(Arabic proverb)
"He who leaves and then returns, had a good trip."
(Corsican proverb)

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