camarillaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• 韻: -ɪlə

名詞

camarilla (複数形 camarillas)

1. A secret, usually sinister, group of conspiring advisors close to the leadership; a cabal.
   • 1990 September 20, Wall Street Journal:

     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, published 2014, page 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.