MERIT SYSTEM
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the system whereby promotions or appointments are made on the basis of a person's merits or value. In this system a person would be promoted because he has the experience, training, ability or attitude necessary to do the job. He doesn't get promoted because he has friends in positions of power as in a spoils system.