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pork barrel

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
pork barrel

▶noun N. Amer. informal the use of government funds for projects designed to win votes.

– derivatives
pork-barrelling noun.

– origin early 20th cent.: from the use of a barrel to keep a reserve supply of meat.

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