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camarilla

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Camarilla (noun) means a small, secretive group of advisers who influence a leader behind the scenes.

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A small, secretive group of advisers who influence a leader behind the scenes.

"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." — Wall Street Journal (1990)

"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." — Simon Winder, Danubia (2013)

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