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Meaning of "carpetbagging" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CARPETBAGGING

ˈkɑːpɪtˌbæɡɪŋ


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CARPETBAGGING

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Carpetbagging is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES CARPETBAGGING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Carpetbagger

In United States history, a carpetbagger was a Northerner who moved to the South after the U.S. Civil War, especially during the Reconstruction era, in order to profit from the instability and power vacuum that existed at this time. The term carpetbagger was a pejorative term referring to the carpet bags which many of these newcomers carried. The term came to be associated with opportunism and exploitation by outsiders. The term is still used today to refer to an outsider perceived as using manipulation or fraud to obtain an objective. Together with Republicans, carpetbaggers were said to have politically manipulated and controlled former Confederate states for varying periods for their own financial and power gains. In sum, carpetbaggers were seen as insidious Northern outsiders with questionable objectives meddling in local politics, buying up plantations at fire-sale prices and taking advantage of Southerners. The term carpetbaggers was also used to describe the Republican political appointees who came South, arriving with their travel carpet bags. Southerners considered them ready to loot and plunder the defeated South. In modern usage in the U.S.

Definition of carpetbagging in the English dictionary

The definition of carpetbagging in the dictionary is relating to carpetbaggers or to the practice of carpetbaggers.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CARPETBAGGING

bagging · ballyragging · bragging · brown-bagging · dagging · defragging · dragging · flagging · foot-dragging · fragging · lagging · lallygagging · nagging · sagging · sandbagging · scagging · slagging · tagging · unflagging · wigwagging

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CARPETBAGGING

carpet beetle · carpet bombing · carpet bowling · carpet bug · carpet knight · carpet moth · carpet plot · carpet python · carpet shark · carpet slipper · carpet snake · carpet tiles · carpet-sweeper · carpet-weaver · carpetbag · carpetbagger · carpetbaggery · carpeting · carpetmonger · carpetweed

WORDS THAT END LIKE CARPETBAGGING

begging · blogging · bugging · changing · clogging · debugging · dogging · flogging · gagging · hogging · hugging · jigging · jogging · legging · ligging · logging · pegging · plugging · rigging · shagging · tugging

Synonyms and antonyms of carpetbagging in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «carpetbagging» into 25 languages

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कार्पेट बॅगिंग
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CARPETBAGGING»

Discover the use of carpetbagging in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to carpetbagging and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Raising More Hell and Fewer Dahlias: The Public Life of ...
3. Carpetbagging. and. Marriage: The. Postwar. Years,. 1865–1871. THE. FIRST CARPETBAGGERS WERE WILDCAT BANKERS IN THE early American West, who set up shop just long enough to bilk the locals and then fled, presumably with ...
Autumn Stanley, 2009
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The Hidden History of Chester County: Lost Tales from the ...
1869. Carpetbagging. Politics. is no place for anyone who ever had an original thought. Which leaves us with...well, pretty much what we have. Take Chester County abolitionist J. Williams Thorne (1816–1897), who moved to North Carolina ...
Mark E. Dixon, 2011
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449 Stupid Things Democrats Have Said
Carpetbagging. “I'm for anybody from Chicago coming to New York.” —Hillary Rodham Clinton, on the possible trade of Chicago Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa to the New York Yankees ...
Rueter, Ted, 2009
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The Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and ...
Liberal white migrants proved valuable to the Democratic Party in some nonsouthern states, and that encouraged some reverse carpetbagging as ambitious southern white liberals headed north or west looking for political openings.
James Noble Gregory, 2005
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Another Country
Let's walk into a typical carpetbagging gallery. It will be well- lit, all front, full of stock, and staffed by an oleaginous, over- friendly salesperson. You will at once be spun a line about the authenticity of the art. There will be much talk about the ...
Nicolas Rothwell, 2007
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The Chimera of Kansas: An Exploration of Place, Politics, ...
Such techniques are, in a way, accusations of “retroactive” carpetbagging: The political figure has deserted their place after being elected to office. Articulations of connectedness, whether positive or negative, seek to demonstrate how ...
Henry Alexander Way, 2008
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Marshall Plan Days
The policy was easily sold to Secretary Byrnes of South Carolina, Under- secretary Clayton of Texas, and General Clay from Georgia by the use of the word “carpetbagging,” evoking the disgraceful looting of the South at the close of the Civil ...
Charles P. Kindleberger, 2009
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Sacred Exchanges: Images in Global Context
But it results in the market being crowded with lesser quality work at prices undercutting the community art centers that have worked to build the reputations the carpetbagging cashes in on. Simultaneously, the “Little Children Are Sacred”  ...
June Carbone, Robyn Ferrell, 2013
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Millennial Stages: Essays and Reviews, 2001-2005
... remarks in an aside that Caroline, or Change represents Kushner's “typical brand” of “sentimental, historical carpetbagging.” There may be a bit of self- satisfaction in this semi-fictionalized piece of history about race relations in the South.
Robert Sanford Brustein, 2006
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American Baseball: From Postwar Expansion to the Electronic Age
Indeed, the American League's 1961 expansion was ill- advised; only the carpetbagging Twins thrived, as American owners rightly felt worsted by their National rivals. Certainly, the Nationals did better in their round. The Colt-45s hung tough ...
David Quentin Voigt, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CARPETBAGGING»

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Total Nonstop Asinine Vol. 6: You Cannot Invade Yourself
However, mean old carpetbagging JJ will beat him for the TNA World Title, just as TNA is canceled by Destination America. It folds, WWE buys ... «Cageside Seats, Jul 15»
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Darden Rice: I won't run for David Jolly's seat in Congress
... complete with some flaring tempers, a boat load of early campaign cash and charges and countercharges about political carpetbagging. «Bayoubuzz, Jul 15»
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There's no reason to debate guacamole. It's already gentrified …
Only bored gringos (northern Yankees, most likely) and carpetbagging advocacy groups come up with such ideas. Further damage was done ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
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4 reflections on Independence Day from Gen. Andrew Luck
... of these great United States, not some criminal outfit from the rebellious plains of Texas or the carpetbagging swindlers from Boston. «SB Nation, Jul 15»
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Scott Browns Newest Campaign: Shady Diet Pills
Dogged by charges of carpetbagging, he was narrowly defeated. And now he's in my inbox and who knows how many other inboxes without a ... «Daily Beast, Jul 15»
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Greens in carpetbagging row after Edinburgh councillor selected to …
AN internal row has broken out within the Scottish Greens after an Edinburgh councillor was selected as the party's top Holyrood candidate in ... «Herald Scotland, Jun 15»
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Democrat Eric Lynn responds to Pinellas 'carpetbagging' attacks
Democrat Eric Lynn responds to Pinellas 'carpetbagging' attacks ... District, a familiar line of attack surfaced: political carpetbagging. In 2014 ... «Tampabay.com, Jun 15»
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A lesson on 'southern heritage' and the profound power of symbols
... misinformed S.O.B. I was, not to mention a carpetbagging liberal Northerner. Most of the writers cited an affiliation with Sons of Confederate ... «Baltimore Sun, Jun 15»
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Mighty Quinn: June 20, 2015
Back in 2004, when she was a carpetbagging junior senator here and I lived in Queens, I repeatedly asked her office for help on a matter that ... «New York Daily News, Jun 15»
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Lindsey Graham Declares Undying Love For The Confederate Flag
How about we in the North celebrate all that carpetbagging you all are still somehow more upset about than the fact that people owned slaves? «The Frisky, Jun 15»
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