pork barrel

The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English

pork bar·rel • n. inf. the use of government funds for projects designed to please voters or legislators and win votes: political pork barrel for the benefit of their respective sponsors | [as adj.] wasteful, pork-barrel spending. DERIVATIVES: pork-bar·rel·ing n.

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