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car·pet·bag·ger

(kär′pĭt-băg′ər)

1. A Northerner who went to the South after the Civil War for political or financial advantage.

2. An outsider, especially a politician, who presumptuously seeks a position or success in a new locality.

[So called because they carried their belongings in carpetbags.]

car′pet·bag′ger·y n.

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carpetbagger

(ˈkɑːpɪtˌbæɡə)

1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a politician who seeks public office in a locality where he or she has no real connections

2. (Insurance) Brit a person who makes a short-term investment in a mutual savings or life-assurance organization in order to benefit from free shares issued following the organization's conversion to a public limited company

3. (Banking & Finance) Brit a person who makes a short-term investment in a mutual savings or life-assurance organization in order to benefit from free shares issued following the organization's conversion to a public limited company

4. (Historical Terms) US a Northern White who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from Reconstruction

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car•pet•bag•ger

(ˈkɑr pɪtˌbæg ər)

n.

1. a Northerner who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the unsettled conditions.

2. any person, esp. a politician, who takes up residence in a place opportunistically.

[1865–70, Amer.]

car′pet•bag`ger•y, n.

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carpetbagger - an outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously; "after the Civil War the carpetbaggers from the north tried to take over the south"

opportunist, self-seeker - a person who places expediency above principle

Translations

volební kandidát

lykkerideropportunist

Opportunist

politikai kalandor

politikas perėjūnas

deputata kandidats

lykkeridder opportunist

politický kariérista

akbaba politikacı

外来政客

carpetbagger

[ˈkɑːpɪtˌbægəʳ] N

1. (US) (Pol) → aventurero/a m/f político/a

2. (Fin) (pej) oportunista que trata de sacar beneficio de una operación de conversión de una sociedad de crédito hipotecario en entidad bancaria

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carpetbagger

[ˈkɑːpɪtˌbægəʳ] n (Pol) → profittatore/trice (politico/a)

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carpetbagger

(ˈkaːpitˌbagə) , ((American) ˈka:rpitˌbagər) noun

politician who moves to a place where he/she sees an opportunity to promote his/her career.

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Neither were all the class designated as carpetbaggers dishonourable men.

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This is the constituency of Tory Julian Smith, a metropolitan carpetbagger who succeeded love-rat David Curry in 2010.

NO fewer than 12,000 ballot [...]

Yet for seventy years virtually every learned book about the Allied invasions has overlooked Carpetbagger contributions.

USAF special operations heritage: Colonel Cliff Heflin and his WWII "Carpetbaggers

During World War II, he played an instrumental role in the planning and execution of a secret military operation: designated by the code name "Operation Carpetbagger." And he wouldn't be the only Michiganian involved.

Remembering Michigan's Carpetbaggers

Among the former are Adelbert Ames, Mississippi's carpetbagger governor; Prince Rivers, a black South Carolina aristocrat; Major Lewis Merrill, U.

The Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox

The Carpetbagger and TV Decoder, in one cited example, will role up into one new blog called Media Decoder, a memo to staffers from New York Times' Jonathan Landman and Denise Warren revealed.

'New York Times' Prunes Some of Its Blogs

A group called Members for Conversion operated a website, carpetbagger.com, which showed the best ways of opening share accounts with building societies and organised demutualisation resolutions.

Letter: Mailbag - Greed caused the downfalls

Some people in Wales, and I am one of them, see him as a carpetbagger.

Discriminated against

Wilson is also helming Eve Ensler's "Necessary Targets," which producers Harriet Newman Leve and Willa Shalit hope to bring to Off Broadway this spring following its Hartford Stage run, and Horton Foote's "The Carpetbagger's Children" at Lincoln Center Theater.

`April' in September? (Noises off)

"People have been calling in to donate costumes and props," said Garza, "but the problem is we have nowhere to put them." Luckily, The Carpetbagger's Children did find an alternate space at the nearby Stages Repertory Theatre and opened on June 12.