| 单词 | carpetbagger |
| 释义 | Word Frequency carpetbagger(ˈkɑːpɪtˌbæɡə) noun 1. a politician who seeks public office in a locality where he or she has no real connections 2. British 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. US a Northern White who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from Reconstruction |
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