CARPETBAGGER

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

An outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously

Example:

after the Civil War the carpetbaggers from the north tried to take over the south

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Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("carpetbagger" is a kind of...):

opportunist; self-seeker (a person who places expediency above principle)

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