how to pronounce crony

/ˈkɹoʊniː/

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crony is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of crony in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… family power dynastic crony uh let's uh …”

meanings of crony

noun:

Close friend.
Trusted companion or partner in a criminal organization.
An old woman; a crone.

crony frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word crony occurs in english on average 0.9 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics crony can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that crony can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;

2) people, society, and culture;