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I think it's cronyism more but it could be nepotism too.
My understanding is that is included in nepotism nowadays (used to be family only, now more general)
Oh really? That's new (to me) I didn't know that! Cheers!
Looks to be about 50/50 between the dictionaries I looked at. Wikipedia includes friends in it's definition.