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Pronunciation guide for pork barrel
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- Practice the English pronunciation of pork barrel with real speech in context.
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- (now rare) A barrel used to store pork. [from 18th c.]
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A Deep Dive Into “pork barrel”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (now rare) A barrel used to store pork. [from 18th c.]
- (chiefly US) A ready supply of income; one's livelihood. [from 19th c.]
- (chiefly US politics, often attributively) 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.]
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