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The thing everyone claims to reward and few can define before the hiring decision.
means The quality of being good or worthy enough to deserve praise, reward, or success.
from From Latin meritum, a thing earned, from merere, to deserve or to earn one's pay — quite literally, wages owed for what you did.
Catholic rootsTheology debated whether merit could buy heaven.
Coined critiqueMeritocracy was invented in 1958 as satire.
Legal twinA case decided on merits ignores technicalities.