spoils
/spɔɪlz/ nom C1En français : pillage, sac, favoritisme
- That which is taken from another by violence; especially, the plunder taken from an enemy; pillage, booty.
- Waste material left over in the course of excavation, construction, mining, or dredging operations. · dredging spoils
- Public offices and their benefits regarded as the peculiar property of a successful party or faction, to be bestowed for its own advantage. · To the victor belong the spoils.
Dans la bibliothèque
“It spoils the effect because this is hundreds of years before Mrs.
Moriarty may have been engaged to engineer it on a promise of part spoils, or he may have been paid so much down to manage it.
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