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PORK BARREL

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Dictionary entry overview: What does pork barrel mean?

• PORK BARREL (noun)
The noun PORK BARREL has 1 sense:

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

Familiarity information: PORK BARREL used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• PORK BARREL (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A legislative appropriation designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

pork barrel; pork

Hypernyms ("pork barrel" is a kind of...):

appropriation (money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose)

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