camarilla
Noun

camarilla (plural camarillas)

  1. A secret, usually sinister, group of conspiring advisors close to the leadership; a cabal.
    • 1990, Wall Street Journal, September 20
      The same lack of accountability has been even more disastrous for the two state-owned banks, which exist primarily to funnel IMF and World Bank funds to the president and his camarilla in the form of unsecured loans.
    • 2013, Simon Winder, Danubia, Picador 2014, p. 369:
      The negotiation dripped with bad faith on both sides, with a powerful Austrian camarilla always seeing it as a short-term deal with the Hungarians to be followed by retribution in due course.



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