ALL meanings of pork barrel
pork bar·rel
P p - noun pork barrel a government appropriation, bill, or policy that supplies funds for local improvements designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents. 1
- singular noun pork barrel If you say that someone is using pork barrel politics, you mean that they are spending a lot of government money on a local project in order to win the votes of the people who live in that area. 0
- noun pork barrel a bill or project requiring considerable government spending in a locality to the benefit of the legislator's constituents 0
- noun pork barrel (as modifier) 0
- noun pork barrel government appropriations for political patronage, as for local improvements to please legislators' constituents 0