| 单词 | greenbacker |
| 释义 | > as lemmasˈGreenbacker ˈGreenbacker n. (also with lower-case initial) U.S. Politics (now historical) a member of the Greenback party. ΚΠ 1868 Davenport (Iowa) Daily Gaz. 11 Mar. 2/1 George H. Pendleton, the distinguished greenbacker of Ohio, will be the next Democratic candidate for the Presidency. 1882 L. Playfair in Macmillan's Mag. 45 336 The greenbackers advocate an internal, inconvertible, non-exportable currency. 1924 Amer. Mercury Dec. 386/1 This divided his Congress badly, and threw fury into the Grangers, Greenbackers and populists. 1963 Agric. Hist. 37 50/2 Later in the decade he became a Greenbacker and in the 1880's became involved in the Farmer's Alliance. 2003 J. D. Ivy Saloon in Valley ii. 37 Texas Democrats were generally able to fend off challenges from Republicans and political dissenters like the Greenbackers of the 1870s. < as lemmas |
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