English - Turkish
Definition of pork-barreling in English Turkish dictionary
- pork barrel
- Bir milletvekilinin seçim bölgesine sağladığı ödenek
- pork barrel
- bir milletvekilinin kendi seçim bölgesi için ayırttığı para
- pork barrel
- milletvekilinin seçim bölgesine sağladığı ödenek
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English - English
Definition of pork-barreling in English English dictionary
- acquisition of government money for benefits to a specific locale; "keeps his hold on his constituents through unashamed pork-barreling
- pork barrel
- A government project or appropriation that yields jobs or other benefits to a specific locale and patronage opportunities to its political representative
- pork barrel
- political handouts, use of funds by the government for projects intended to win votes; jobs and distributed by the government to gain political advantage and not for public advantage; barrel in which pork is kept; (figuratively) "bread and butter, livelihood, source of income
- pork barrel
- a legislative appropriation designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents
- pork barrel
- disapproval 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. Pork-barrel politicians hand out rents to win votes and influence people. A government project or appropriation that yields jobs or other benefits to a specific locale and patronage opportunities to its political representative. a government plan to increase the amount of money spent in a particular area, done in order to gain a political advantage - used to show disapproval