Look up: Carpet-Bagger

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   Carpet-Bagger
   A Carpet-Bagger is a needy political adventurer who goes about the country pandering to the prejudices of the ignorant with a view of getting into place or power. The name originates from politicians of the USA who tried to gain the votes of the Blacks and who carried no more property than might fill a carpet-bag.
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   carpetbagger
   [n] - an outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously
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   Carpetbagger
   A building society customer who opens an account in the hope the building society will demutualise and pay a windfall of cash or shares.
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   Carpetbagger
   Someone who becomes an account holder with a building society in the hope of benefiting from a... <a target=_blank href='http://www.finance-glossary.com/terms/carpetbagger.htm?id=1871&ginPtrCode=00000&PopupMode=false' title='Read full definition of carpetbagger'>more</a>
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   carpetbagger
   In US history, derogatory name for any of the entrepreneurs and politicians from the North who moved to the Southern states during Reconstruction (1865-77) after the Civil War, to exploit the...
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   Carpetbagger
   Car'pet·bag`ger noun An adventurer; -- a term of contempt for a Northern man seeking private gain or political advancement in the southern part of the United States after the Civil War (1865). [ U. S.]
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   carpetbagger
   noun an outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously; `after the Civil War the carpetbaggers from the north tried to take over the south`
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   Carpetbagger
   In United States history, `carpetbaggers` were Northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction between 1865 and 1877. They formed a coalition with Freedmen (freed slaves), and Scalawags (Southern whites who supported the Reconstruction) in the Republican Party, which in turn controlled ex-Confederate states for varying periods, 1867-1877. `Carpetbaggers` was coined from the carpet bags used as inexpensive luggage. It was originally a d...
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   Carpetbagger
   • (n.) An adventurer; -- a term of contempt for a Northern man seeking private gain or political advancement in the southern part of the United States after the Civil War (1865).
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    carpetbagger
    during the Reconstruction period (1865–77) following the American Civil War, any Northern politician or financial adventurer accused of going South ... [1 related articles]
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