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pork-barrelling

Definitions

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  • noun politics The practice of giving favours or money to voters in connection with a candidate for a current or future election, 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 all voters in the politician's electorate, or to certain organizations, as compensation or payback for support from those voters or organizations in the past.

Etymologies

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pork barrel +‎ -ing.

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2007

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

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