carpetbagger
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carpetbagger (plural carpetbaggers)
- (politics, chiefly US) A candidate who runs in a district where he or she has not previously held residence.
- Though he lived and worked in Los Angeles for sixteen years, the candidate for Attorney General is no carpetbagger; he was born and raised in this state and graduated from the state university.
- (US, often capitalized) One of several Northern politicians who migrated to the South during Reconstruction and held public office.
- (US, pejorative, by extension) a Northerner with no Southern ties who migrates to the South for work.
- He's just a carpetbagger who was surprised to find that Southerns are not like the cast of The Dukes of Hazzard or Deliverance.
- (pejorative, by extension) One who comes to a place or organisation with which they have no previous connection with the sole or primary aim of personal gain, especially political or financial gain; one who carpetbags
- (British, pejorative) One who attempts to force a mutual organisation, such as a building society, to demutualise — to list on a stock exchange, solely for personal pecuniary advantage.
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Politics, especially US: A candidate who runs in a district where he or she has not previously held residence
US: One of several Northern politicians who migrated to the South during Reconstruction
US: A Northerner with no Southern ties who migrates to the South for work
One who comes to a place or organisation primarily or solely for personal gain
One who attempts to force a mutual organisation to demutualise for personal gain
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- Portuguese: candidato forasteiro, pára-quedista – s.m.
