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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Slang A government project or appropriation that yields jobs or other benefits to a specific locale and patronage opportunities to its political representative.

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  1. n. a legislative appropriation designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents

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  1. From pork barrel, barrel for storing pork, supply of money. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • treeseed A pork barrel, literally, is a barrel in which pork is kept. The term is more commonly used as a political metaphor for the appropriation of government spending for projects that are intended primarily to benefit particular constituents or campaign contributors. This usage originated in American English.
    _Wikipedia Feb 7, 2008

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