pork-barreling

Definitions of pork-barreling
  1. noun
    acquisition of government money for benefits to a specific locale
    “keeps his hold on his constituents through unashamed pork-barreling”
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    type of:
    acquisition
    the act of contracting or assuming or acquiring possession of something
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