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carpetbag

N กระเป๋า ที่ ทำ จาก พรม ใช้ ใน การ เดินทาง  kra-pao-ti-tham-jak-prom-chai-nai-kan-doen-tang

 

carpetbagger

N ย้ายถิ่น ที่อยู่ เพื่อ หาเสียง ใน ถิ่น ใหม่ 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

CARPETBAG

CARPETBAG Car "pet *bag `, n.

 

Defn: A portable bag for travelers; -- so called because originally made of carpet.

 

CARPETBAGGER

CARPETBAGGER Car "pet *bag "ger, n.

 

Defn: An adventurer; -- a term of contempt for a Northern man seeking private gain or political advancement in the southern part of the United States after the Civil War (1865 ). [U. S.]

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

carpetbag

car pet bag |ˈkärpitˌbag ˈkɑrpətbæɡ | ▶noun a traveling bag of a kind originally made of carpeting or carpetlike material. ▶verb [ no obj. ] act as a carpetbagger: (as adj. carpetbagging ) : rich, carpetbagging developers.

 

carpetbagger

car pet bag ger |ˈkärpitˌbagər ˈkɑrpətˌbæɡər | ▶noun derogatory a political candidate who seeks election in an area where they have no local connections. • historical (in the US ) a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction. • a person perceived as an unscrupulous opportunist: the organization is rife with carpetbaggers.

 

Oxford Dictionary

carpetbagger

carpet |bagger |ˈkɑːpɪtbaɡə (r )| ▶noun informal, derogatory a political candidate who seeks election in an area where they have no local connections. • Brit. a person who becomes a member of a mutually owned building society or insurance company in order to gain financially in the event of the organization demutualizing. ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: originally applied to people from the northern states of the US who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

carpetbag

c á rpet b à g 名詞 C (じゅうたん地製の )旅行かばん .動詞 (→bag )自動詞 ｟米 ｠利益を求めて渡り歩く .