pork-barreling

Variant of pork barrel

pork barrel definition

☆ pork barrel

Informal government appropriations for political patronage, as for local improvements to please legislators' constituents

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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