boroughmonger
English
Noun
boroughmonger (plural boroughmongers)
- (historical) In the unreformed House of Commons, one who bought or sold the parliamentary seats of boroughs.
- 1966, Owen Chadwick, The Victorian Church, volume 1, page 26:
- 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.
Related terms
- monger and its derived terms
Further reading
- “boroughmonger”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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