carpetbagger

Definition of Carpetbagger in English :

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Noun

1. carpetbagger

an outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously

Example Sentences:
'after the Civil War the carpetbaggers from the north tried to take over the south'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Carpetbagger

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noun

1.

a politician who seeks public office in a locality where he or she has no real connections

2. British

a person who makes a short-term investment in a mutual savings or life-assurance organization in order to benefit from free shares issued following the organization's conversion to a public limited company

3. US

a Northern White who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from Reconstruction

Carpetbagger

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noun

1.

any of the Northern politicians or adventurers who went South to take advantage of unsettled conditions after the Civil War

contemptuous term with reference to the luggage they used in traveling light

2.

any politician, promoter, etc. from the outside whose influence is resented

Carpetbagger

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n.

1. A Northerner who went to the South after the Civil War for political or financial advantage.

2. An outsider, especially a politician, who presumptuously seeks a position or success in a new locality.

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