crony

noun

1. 好友；密友
   a person that sb spends a lot of time with
   1. He was playing cards with his cronies.
      他当时正与他那些狐朋狗友玩牌。

1. N-COUNT 好友;密友;(尤指)狐朋狗友
   You can refer to friends that someone spends a lot of time with as their cronies, especially when you disapprove of them.
   1. He returned from a lunchtime drinking session with his business cronies.
      中午跟那帮生意上的朋友喝完酒后，他回来了。

1. He returned from a lunchtime drinking session with his business cronies.
   中午跟那帮生意上的朋友喝完酒后，他回来了。
2. Your crony factor ( 10%): do you play quoits with Mr. roover?
   亲信因素（10%）：你会跟鲁弗先生玩套圈游戏吗？
3. Once achieved, the whole apparatus of state ( and the vested interests and crony capitalism that flourished then) was essentially wired to maintain the status quo, and do so regardless of performance.
   一旦拥有了权力，整个国家机器（以及当时繁荣昌盛的特权阶级和裙带资本主义）会从根本上进入维持现状的状态，无论执政者们表现如何都将一如既往地运作。
4. The private sector operated by earning privileges from the state, leading to a form of crony capitalism that only helped a few, and undermined exports and jobs.
   私营部门的运作要依靠政府提供的特权，形成一种只有利于少数人的裙带资本主义，对出口和就业造成破坏。
5. Detractors see the bank as a symbol of crony capitalism because of its support for companies such as Boeing.
   由于该行对波音（Boeing）等企业的支持，贬低者们将该行视为裙带资本主义的象征。
6. Instead, Republicans were sure to include code words to subtly identify the incumbent's alleged failures: defeatism, crony capitalism, ad hoc responses, bureaucrats and the like.
   相反，共和党人肯定会用一些代名词隐晦地指出现任总统的所谓失败，比如失败主义、裙带资本主义、特别回应、官僚等等。
7. To be pro-business means allowing politicians and officials to retain authority over economic decisions, leading to crony capitalism.
   支持企业意味着让政客和官员保留经济决策大权，从而滋生裙带资本主义。
8. By contrast in Ukraine, as in Russia, crony capitalism took hold.
   相比之下，乌克兰就像在俄罗斯那样，裙带资本主义生根发芽。
9. ( Since being deposed, he's had a brother-in-law, a younger sister, and a close business crony in the seat of power).
   （自被罢免之后，他信的姐夫、妹妹和商业密友曾先后执掌政权）。
10. Only thing failing is crony capitalism and socialism.
    只有裙带资本主义和社会主义才失败。
11. Some of these funds will invest wisely, but many will pursue non-commercial goals, from job creation to crony enrichment.
    这些基金有的被有效地投资，但是很多则被用于非商业目的，从创造就业到中饱私囊。
12. The second kind of barrier to entry is that of crony capitalism.
    第二个准入壁垒是裙带资本主义。
13. Crony capitalism is very different from the market economy.
    裙带资本主义与市场经济相去甚远。
14. Yet, because Navis does not like to be involved with government in any way-for example, heavily regulated, quasi-private or crony companies-its corporate universe in south-east Asia is relatively limited.
    不过，由于Navis不喜欢以任何方式与政府打交道例如，受到严格监管、准私营或与政府关系密切的企业因此该公司面对的东南亚企业相对有限。
15. Western economies are afflicted with their own versions of crony capitalism.
    西方经济体也存在自己的裙带资本主义。
16. Crony capitalism and self-fulfilling expectations by international creditors are often suggested as two rival explanations for currency crisis.
    亲密资本和预期自致型模型被认为是对货币危机的两个典型的对立的解释。
17. Their fortunes were also boosted by monopolistic power and crony capitalism.
    而垄断力量和权贵资本主义也增加了他们的财富。
18. As for Russia, without the revenue from its energy resources, Vladimir Putin's brand of crony capitalism would have collapsed long ago.
    至于俄罗斯，如果没有能源资源带来的收入，弗拉基米尔普京（VladimirPutin）招牌式的裙带资本主义早就会破产。
19. In modern India, rent-seeking takes the form of endemic corruption and the crony capitalism that describes too-close relationships between big business and the state.
    在现代印度，寻租的形式是普遍的腐败和裙带资本主义大企业和政府的关系过于密切。
20. Returned the really astonished Passepartout, recognizing his crony of the` Mongolia '.
    路路通非常惊奇地回答说，他认出了这位在蒙古号上跟他同船的旅伴。
21. In her late sixties she traveled over Europe with a crony of equal years.
    在接近古稀之年，她同一个与她同年的密友漫游欧洲。
22. But that is now changing, as cadres meld seamlessly into the world of crony capitalism.
    不过，随着很多官员融入权贵资本主义世界，情况正在改变。
23. Given the dual voting share structures and crony boards that exist at the likes of Google and Facebook, that is a serious stricture.
    考虑到谷歌（Google）、Facebook等美国公司存在的双重投票权结构以及董事会成员间的密友关系，这是一项非常严厉的批评。
24. Under Mr Medvedev, Russia's system of crony capitalism, entrenched corruption, a powerful security service and the absence of any rule of law has continued unchecked.
    在梅德韦杰夫任期，对于俄罗斯的裙带资本主义，根深蒂固的腐败，强有力的安全保障和对法律的缺失没有多少作为。
25. Even in East Asia, crony capitalism, and not open capital accounts, was seen as the cause of the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis.
    即使在东亚，裙带资本主义（而非开放的资本账户）被视为导致1997/98年亚洲金融危机的原因。
26. The country must move from what the report calls "crony capitalism and petty corruption" to something different.
    印度必须改变报告称之为“裙带资本主义和轻度腐败”的现象。
27. It said India needed to develop an effective competition commission and strengthen regulators to prevent crony capitalism as well as foster greater transparency in the allocation of land and infrastructure projects.
    报告表示，印度需要成立一个有效的竞争委员会，并强化监管机构的职能，以防范裙带资本主义；同时还要在土地和基础设施项目的分配方面加大透明度。
28. We kept our heads low and continued to do our business; 2008-09 was the height of the crony regime, unless you played their game you were outcast.
    我们放低姿态继续经营自己的业务；2008至2009年间是政府结党营私最为严重的时期，如果你不参与他们的游戏，你就将遭到排斥。
29. Chapter two introduces the cause-and-effect relationship between moral hazards and the Asian financial turmoil and thinks that the senses of Asian value and crony capitalism have put the moral hazard of agents to the extreme.
    第二章介绍了道德风险与亚洲金融危机之间的生成关系，而亚洲价值观与裙带资本主义更是将代理人的道德风险推行极致。

noun

1. a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities

   Synonym:    buddybrotherchumpalsidekick