ALL meanings of carpetbagger
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C c - countable noun carpetbagger 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. 3
- noun carpetbagger a politician who seeks public office in a locality where he or she has no real connections 3
- noun carpetbagger 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
- noun carpetbagger a Northern White who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from Reconstruction 3
- noun carpetbagger any of the Northern politicians or adventurers who went South to take advantage of unsettled conditions after the Civil War 3
- noun carpetbagger any politician, promoter, etc. from the outside whose influence is resented 3
- noun carpetbagger politics: opportunistic outsider 1
- noun carpetbagger U.S. History. a Northerner who went to the South after the Civil War and became active in Republican politics, especially so as to profiteer from the unsettled social and political conditions of the area during Reconstruction. 1
- noun carpetbagger a politician who takes up residence in a place and runs for office without having strong ties to the area. 1
- noun carpetbagger any opportunistic or exploitive outsider: Our bus company has served this town for years, but now the new one run by carpetbaggers from the city is stealing our business. 1
- noun carpetbagger A political candidate who seeks election in an area where they have no local connections. 1
- noun carpetbagger (politics, historical, chiefly US) An immigrant from the Northern to the Southern States after the American Civil War of 1861–5, especially one who went South to gain political influence; hence, someone intervening in the politics of an area with which they are thought to have no real connection. 0
- noun carpetbagger (pejorative, by extension) 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. 0