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- adjective Opposing or preventing
nepotism .
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Examples
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Like other married women academics of her day, she experienced discrimination due to antinepotism rules and, like many intellectual emigrés, did not receive the appreciation she deserved during her lifetime.
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Two generations after antinepotism laws began to open up civil service positions to excluded groups like Jews and blacks, "the pendulum seems to be swinging the other way," says Adam Bellow, author of a book called "In Praise of Nepotism."
Kennepotism 2008
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†James Baker was initially prohibited from working at Baker Botts because of an antinepotism rule at the firm.
House of Bush, House of Saud Craig Unger 2004
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†James Baker was initially prohibited from working at Baker Botts because of an antinepotism rule at the firm.
House of Bush, House of Saud Craig Unger 2004
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Chief Justice for Administration and Management Robert A. Mulligan over whether it violated the court's antinepotism rule.
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