boroughmonger
nounEtymology From borough + monger.
1
Historical In the unreformed House of Commons, one who bought or sold the parliamentary seats of boroughs.
- 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.1966, Owen Chadwick, The Victorian Church, volume 1, page 26:
- Related terms
- monger