Definitions
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- noun politics The practice of giving favours or money to
voters in connection with acandidate for a current or futureelection , in order to sway enough voters so that the candidate will win. - noun politics The practice of an elected
politician giving favours or money to some or allvoters in the politician'selectorate , or to certainorganizations , ascompensation orpayback for support from those voters or organizations in the past.
Etymologies
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Examples
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But also, and more to the point, no doubt he will go on about how he will veto pork-barrel spending and rein in earmarks and how he's always been so maverickly anti-earmark and pork-barrelling.
Flashback: Steve Carrell Nails McCain On Pork-Barrelling 2010
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But also, and more to the point, no doubt he will go on about how he will veto pork-barrel spending and rein in earmarks and how he's always been so maverickly anti-earmark and pork-barrelling.
Flashback: Steve Carrell Nails McCain On Pork-Barrelling 2010
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Both provinces and feds work on that very Canadian phobia, separation, to excuse the pork-barrelling.
Does the Northwest Passage still matter? « Stephen Rees's blog 2009
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Already fighting the charge that it is trying to buy its way back into office, the last thing government needed was an official report into its pork-barrelling before the last election.
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Already fighting the charge that it is trying to buy its way back into office, the last thing government needed was an official report into its pork-barrelling before the last election.
Howard's end nears 2007
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The South China Morning Post quoted a Singaporean businessman, Ho Kwon-ping, condemning “cronyism and pork-barrelling” in East Asia, adding, “In place of good management, many relied on guanxi.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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The South China Morning Post quoted a Singaporean businessman, Ho Kwon-ping, condemning “cronyism and pork-barrelling” in East Asia, adding, “In place of good management, many relied on guanxi.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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The South China Morning Post quoted a Singaporean businessman, Ho Kwon-ping, condemning “cronyism and pork-barrelling” in East Asia, adding, “In place of good management, many relied on guanxi.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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The South China Morning Post quoted a Singaporean businessman, Ho Kwon-ping, condemning “cronyism and pork-barrelling” in East Asia, adding, “In place of good management, many relied on guanxi.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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Burrows said his party was strongly opposed to "pork-barrelling", a term used in the US to describe projects created in areas to sway voters.
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