pork barrel

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   a legislative appropriation designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents

   Synonymspork

   Broaderappropriation

Questions about pork barrel

What does pork barrel mean?

pork barrel means "a legislative appropriation designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents".

What is another word for pork barrel?

Close synonyms include pork. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pork barrel a common word?

pork barrel is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.