Definition of "spoils"

spoils

/spɔɪlz/

noun
plural only
1. That which is taken from another by violence; especially, the plunder taken from an enemy; pillage, booty.
  Quotations
  Gentle gales, / Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense / Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole / Those balmy spoils.
  1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,
2. Waste material left over in the course of excavation, construction, mining, or dredging operations.
3. Public offices and their benefits regarded as the peculiar property of a successful party or faction, to be bestowed for its own advantage.
verb
1. third-person singular simple present indicative of spoil