carpetbagger betydelse and definition

Betydelse av carpetbagger på svenska

• 0 someone who tries to be elected as a politician in a place away from their home because they think there is a greater chance of succeeding there

• 1 someone who invests in a financial organization that is owned by its members, in order to make a profit if it is sold:

  • Thousands of carpetbaggers have invested in the building society, hoping that it will become a public company.

• 2 a person from the American North who tried to profit in the American South after the Civil War

• 3 a politician who runs for election in a place where he or she does not live or has only lived for a short time:

  • People do not want interference from here today, gone tomorrow, political carpetbaggers.

• 4 a person who joins a mutual organization (= one that is owned by its members rather than by shareholders) hoping that it will become a company with shares and pay its members to agree:

  • The building society is finalizing its defence against carpetbaggers who have forced a demutualization vote.