carpetbaggery

英['kɑːpɪtbæɡə(r)] 美['kɑːrpɪtbæɡər]
  • n.投机政客;美国内战后利用南方不定局势谋利的人
Noun:
  1. an outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously;

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