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Definition of spoils system. : a practice of regarding public offices and their emoluments as plunder for members of the victorious party.
By the 1830s the spoils system meant the systematic replacement of office holders every time the government changed party hands. The Civil Service Reform Act is an 1883 federal law that abolished the United States Civil Service Commission. It eventually placed most federal employees on the merit system and marked the end of the so-called  spoils system ..