Meanings
- BarbadosuncountablePolitical sycophancy in return for favors.
If it is not your goal, are you going to say that you as a Government will wish to find yourself in a position where you will have to perpetuate the kind of political preferential treatment commonly known as yard fowlism in terms of job generation and getting people in jobs?
1990, The Official Gazette, volume 125, numbers 19-27, page 33582 more examples
As if it were not enough, one notes too that management analysis and technique continue to face a hard and relentless time from pork-barrel aims, yardfowlism, nepotism, favouritism, cronyism, apple-polishing, logrolling, featherbedding empire-building and other social-human phenomena.
1988, Bulletin of Eastern Caribbean Affairs, volume 14, page 35I need not remind you that, in making this commitment, the National Democratic Party has resolved to set its face against that mode of unsavoury and unprincipled party oriented behaviour which Barbadians so aptly describe as 'yardfowlism', a cancerous condition which has paralysed other political parties and has rendered them unable to put the national interest before personal and partisan considerations.
1990, The House of Assembly Debates, Barbados Legislature House of Assembly, page 6026
Origin
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