Spoils Definition

spoil
noun

That which is taken from another by violence; especially, the plunder taken from an enemy; pillage; booty.

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Public offices and their benefits regarded as the peculiar property of a successful party or faction, to be bestowed for its own advantage; -- commonly in the plural; as.

To the victor belong the spoils.
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verb

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of spoil.

Milk spoils when left out too long.
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Spoils Sentence Examples

  • The auction continued in full swing, the outdoor area crowded with bargain seekers, their acquired spoils piled high about them.

  • Even so, Prussia was bereft of half of her territories; those west of the river Elbe went to swell the domains of Napoleon's vassals or to form the new kingdom of Westphalia for Jerome Bonaparte; while the spoils which the House of Hohenzollern had won from Poland in the second and third partitions were now to form the duchy of Warsaw, ruled over by Napoleon's ally, the elector (now king) of Saxony.

  • The House of Habsburg now ceded Salzburg and the Inn-Viertel to Napoleon (for his ally, the king of Bavaria); a great portion of the spoils which Austria had torn from Poland in 1795 went to the grand duchy of Warsaw, or Russia; and the cession of her provinces Carinthia, Carniola and Istria to the French empire cut her off from all access to the sea.

  • The spoils of its tombs excavated in 1896 are in the British Museum.

  • He would also ferry them back when the auction was finished, hauling home the spoils of the sale.

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