pork barrel

See also: porkbarrel

English

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpɔːkˌbaɹəl/

Noun

pork barrel (plural pork barrels)

  1. (now rare) A barrel used to store pork. [from 18th c.]
  2. (chiefly US) A ready supply of income; one's livelihood. [from 19th c.]
  3. (politics, chiefly US) State funds as assigned for local or regional expenditure; especially, central money used for regional projects which are eyecatching or designed to appeal to voters. [from 19th c.]
    • 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin 2012, p. 380:
      Peacekeeping initiatives […] can dangle pork-barrel funding as an incentive to leaders who abide by the peace, enhancing their power and electoral popularity.

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