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Giving Nepotism a Good Name
Comcast’s smooth father-to-son handoff offers a different model than corporate America’s typical family sagas, writes Joe Nocera.
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nep•o•tism (nĕp'ə-tĭz'əm)
n. 偏袒(或重用)親戚 /任人唯親。注意，最好不要翻譯成「裙帶關係」。
日文━━ n. 縁故採用; 情実.
Favoritism shown or patronage granted to relatives, as in business.
[French népotisme, from Italian nepotismo, from nepote, nephew, from Latin nepōs, nepōt-.]
下述(from Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary) 的定義有一優點，即說明此字眼多為負面意義 (disapproving ，罵人的或瞧不起或不以為然的)：
nepotism
noun [U] DISAPPROVING
using your power or influence to obtain good jobs or unfair advantages for members of your own family:
He was guilty of nepotism and corruption.
nepotistic
adjective DISAPPROVING
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handoff
1. The act or an instance of passing something or the control of it from one person or agency to another: a handoff of the aircraft from one control tower to another.
電信術語；
Handoff - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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