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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a legislative appropriation designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents [syn: pork barrel, pork]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1909 government projects or appropriations yielding rich patronage benefits; also pork 2

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

also pork-barrel If you say that someone is using pork barrel politics, you mean that they are spending a lot of government money on a local project in order to win the votes of the people who live in that area. (mainly AM) Pork-barrel politicians hand out rents to win votes and influence people. N-SING: usu N n [disapproval]

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