| 词汇 | pork-barrel |
| 语种 | 英语、汉语、英汉翻译、汉英翻译 |
| 释义 | pork-barrel adjective[ before noun ] USslangdisapprovinguk /ˈpɔːkˌbær.əl/ us /ˈpɔːrkˌber.əl/ involving spending large amounts of money in an area in order to make local people more likely to vote for a particular person or party: （为争取地方选民）政治拨款的，分肥拨款的 pork-barrel projects/spending/politics分肥拨款项目／开支／政治 Economics accommodative anti-economic anti-inflation anti-inflationary anti-recession buyer's market deindustrialization economic Great Recession gross domestic product HDI human development index Keynesian monetarism monetary recession reflate retrench squeeze the public purse pork barrel | American Dictionarypork barrel noun[ U ] us/pɔrk ˈbær·əl/(alsopork, us/pɔrk/) the spending of federal or state government money for local improvements to help a politician win popularity with local voters: pork-barrel politics pork barrel | Business Englishpork barrel noun[ U ] USinformalukus POLITICS spending by politicians of large amounts of government money on projects in the areas they depend on for being elected in order to become more popular: They viewed the huge amounts spent on community environmental projects as pork barrel. pork-barreladjective[ before noun ] The President promised to attack wasteful spending in Washington by vetoing pork-barrel spending bills. |
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