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Pork Barrel

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Noun

1. pork, pork barrel

a legislative appropriation designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents

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Pork Barrel

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noun
slang, mainly US
a. 
a bill or project requiring considerable government spending in a locality to the benefit of the legislator's constituents
b. 
(as modifier)
pork-barrel spending

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Pork Barrel

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

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Pork Barrel

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n.
Slang
A government project or appropriation that yields jobs or other benefits to a specific locale and patronage opportunities to its political representative.

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