Boroughmonger
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 In the unreformed House of Commons, one who bought or sold the parliamentary seats of boroughs. historical
"Whig and radical newspapers pilloried them as allies of boroughmongers, maintainers of graft and corruption and bribery, enemies of liberty and the civil rights of Englishmen."
Example
More examples"Whig and radical newspapers pilloried them as allies of boroughmongers, maintainers of graft and corruption and bribery, enemies of liberty and the civil rights of Englishmen."
Etymology
From borough + monger.
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