teapot dome scandal

1. 1.

   a government scandal involving a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company in 1921; became symbolic of the scandals of the Harding administration

   SynonymsTeapot Dome

   Broaderscandal

Questions about teapot dome scandal

What does teapot dome scandal mean?

teapot dome scandal means "a government scandal involving a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company in 1921; became symbolic of the scandals of the Harding administration".

What is another word for teapot dome scandal?

Close synonyms include Teapot Dome. 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 teapot dome scandal a common word?

teapot dome scandal 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.