The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
Carpetbagger — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Caricatura donde el KKK amenaza con linchar a los Carpetbaggers, en Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Independent Monitor, 1868 El término carpetbagger nació en los Estados Unidos en el siglo XIX, como una denominación política… … Wikipedia Español
carpetbagger — car‧pet‧bag‧ger [ˈkɑːptˌbægə ǁ ˈkɑːrptˌbægər] noun [countable] informal disapproving 1. FINANCE an investor who puts their money into a life insurance or a building hoping that it will … Financial and business terms
carpetbagger — A carpetbagger is an opportunist without any scruples or ethics, or a politican who wants to represent a place they have no connection with … The small dictionary of idiomes
carpetbagger — ● carpetbagger nom masculin (américain carpetbag, sac de voyage) Sobriquet donné par les sudistes aux aventuriers blancs venus dans le Sud, après la guerre de Sécession … Encyclopédie Universelle
Carpetbagger — [ kɑːpɪtbægə, englisch; zu carpetbag »Reisetasche«] der, s/ s, in den USA Bezeichnung für die Ämterjäger und Politiker der Republikanischen Partei, die nach dem Sezessionskrieg aus dem Norden in die besetzten Südstaaten kamen, um sich zu… … Universal-Lexikon
carpetbagger — (n.) 1868, American English, scornful appellation for Northerners who went South after the fall of the CSA seeking private gain or political advancement. The name is based on the image of men arriving with all their worldly goods in a big… … Etymology dictionary
carpetbagger — ► NOUN derogatory, chiefly N. Amer. 1) a politician who seeks election in an area where they have no local connections. 2) an unscrupulous opportunist … English terms dictionary
carpetbagger — ☆ carpetbagger [kär′pətbag΄ər ] n. 1. any of the Northern politicians or adventurers who went South to take advantage of unsettled conditions after the Civil War: contemptuous term with reference to the luggage they used in traveling light 2. any … English World dictionary
Carpetbagger — In United States history, carpetbaggers was the term southerners gave to northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction, between 1865 and 1877. They formed a coalition with freedmen (freed slaves), and scalawags (southern whites who… … Wikipedia
Carpetbagger — Caricature du sénateur Carl Schurz en carpetbagger par Thomas Nast … Wikipédia en Français
