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pork barrel: a legislative appropriation designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents

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pork collapse: meat from a domestic hog or pig

finagler collapse: a deceiver who uses crafty misleading methods

Realpolitik collapse: politics based on practical rather than moral or ideological considerations

booty collapse

strategist collapse: an expert in strategy (especially in warfare)

patronage collapse: (politics) granting favors or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support; support by being a patron of

swapping collapse

stolen goods collapse

graft collapse: the act of grafting something onto something else; (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient; cause to grow together parts from different plants; "graft the cherry tree branch onto the plum tree"

spoils of office collapse

logrolling collapse: act of exchanging favors for mutual gain; especially trading of influence or votes among legislators to gain passage of certain projects

bossism collapse: domination of a political organization by a party boss

fat back collapse

bacon collapse: back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked; usually sliced thin and fried; English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626); English scientist and Franciscan monk who stressed the importance of experimentation; first showed that air is required for combustion and first used lenses to correct vision (1220-1292)

spareribs collapse: cut of pork from the rib section with most of the meat trimmed off

strongbox collapse: a strongly made box for holding money or valuables; can be locked

Fort Knox collapse

cashbox collapse: a strongbox for holding cash

strong room collapse

piggy bank collapse: a child's coin bank (often shaped like a pig)

back scratching collapse

machinator collapse

gray eminence collapse

kingmaker collapse: an important person who can bring leaders to power through the exercise of political influence; "the Earl of Warwick was the first kingmaker"

trading collapse: buying or selling securities or commodities

plum collapse: a highly desirable position or assignment; "a political plum"; any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit; any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone

pickings collapse: the act of someone who picks up or takes something; "the pickings were easy"; "clothing could be had for the taking"

partisanism collapse

coffer collapse: a chest especially for storing valuables; an ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome

wire puller collapse

public trough collapse

swap collapse: move (a piece of a program) into memory, in computer science

plunder collapse: steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"

wheeler dealer collapse

boodle collapse: informal terms for money

Tammany Hall collapse: a political organization within the Democratic Party in New York City (late 1800's and early 1900's) seeking political control by corruption and bossism

loot collapse: goods or money obtained illegally; take illegally; of intellectual property; "This writer plundered from famous authors"

stealing collapse

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