English - Turkish
Definition of carpet bagger in English Turkish dictionary
- (Politika, Siyaset) vurguncu
- vurguncu kimse
- maceraperest politikacı
- iç savaştan sonra güney amerika'ya giden kimse
- dolandırıcı
- carpetbagger
- maceracı politikacı
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Definition of carpet bagger in English English dictionary
- carpet baggers
- plural form of carpet bagger
- carpetbagger
- a Northerner with no Southern ties who migrates to the South for work
He's just a carpetbagger who was surprised to find that Southerns are not like the cast of The Dukes of Hazzard or Deliverance.
- carpetbagger
- One who comes to a place or organisation with which they have no previous connection with the sole or primary aim of personal gain, especially political or financial gain; one who carpetbags
- carpetbagger
- A candidate who runs in a district where he or she has not previously held residence
Though he lived and worked in Los Angeles for sixteen years, the candidate for Attorney General is no carpetbagger; he was born and raised in this state and graduated from the state university.
- carpetbagger
- An candidate who runs in a district where he or she has not previously held residence
- carpetbagger
- disapproval If you call someone a carpetbagger, you disapprove of them because they are trying to become a politician in an area which is not their home, simply because they think they are more likely to succeed there. Epithet used during the Reconstruction period (1865-77) to describe a Northerner in the South seeking private gain. The word referred to an unwelcome outsider arriving with nothing more than his belongings packed in a satchel or carpetbag. Many carpetbaggers were involved in corrupt financial schemes, but others helped rebuild the economy in the South and participated in educational and social reform
- carpetbagger
- an outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously; "after the Civil War the carpetbaggers from the north tried to take over the south"
- carpetbagger
- an outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously; "after the Civil War the carpetbaggers from the north tried to take over the south
- carpetbagger
- One of several Northern politicians who migrated to the South during Reconstruction and held public office
- carpetbagger
- {i} adventurer, Northerner that traveled to the South to make a profit after the Civil War
- carpetbagger
- By extension, a Northern with no Southern ties who migrates to the South for work
- carpetbagger
- 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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carpet bagger
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