English-Italian translations for spoils

• bottino
  Questa procedura sembrerebbe quasi una spartizione del bottino. Such a procedure would almost smack of sharing out the spoils.
  Perché si legge in alcuni testi che il bottino dello Zaire sarebbe enorme? Why can we now read reports which state that the spoils to be gained in Zaire are 'enormous' ?
  La lotta imperialista ravvicinata per una parte del bottino sta diventando sempre più accanita, nonostante la strategia di cooperazione con gli Stati Uniti e la NATO. Imperialist infighting for a share of the spoils is hotting up, despite the strategy of cooperation with the USA and NATO.

Definition of spoils

• That which is taken from another by violence; especially, the plunder taken from an enemy; pillage; booty
• Public offices and their benefits regarded as the peculiar property of a successful party or faction, to be bestowed for its own advantage

Examples

• To the victor belong the spoils.

Related words

• spoilsport
• spoils of war
• to the victor go the spoils
• exchange (spoils or loot)