"boroughmonger" meaning in English

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      "form": "boroughmongers",
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          "ref": "1966, Owen Chadwick, The Victorian Church, volume 1, page 26",
          "text": "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.",
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        "In the unreformed House of Commons, one who bought or sold the parliamentary seats of boroughs."
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        "(historical) In the unreformed House of Commons, one who bought or sold the parliamentary seats of boroughs."
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  "word": "boroughmonger"
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  "etymology_text": "borough + monger",
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        "(historical) In the unreformed House of Commons, one who bought or sold the parliamentary seats of boroughs."
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