Greenback party
noun
a former political party, organized in 1874, opposed to the retirement or reduction of greenbacks and favoring their increase as the only paper currency.
Greenbacker
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a word derived from
Greenback Party.
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a word derived from
Greenback party.
Greenback partynouna former political party, organized in 1874, opposed to the retirement or reduction of greenbacks and favoring their increase as the only paper currency.
Example Sentences
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A Greenbacker in a Democratic town, stanch Publisher Taylor died in 1894.
From Time Magazine Archive
Every new scheme of increasing happiness by force found a helper, a fighter, and a giver in him; by turns he had been an Abolitionist, a Fourierist, a Socialist, a Greenbacker, a Farmers' Alliance man.
From Stories of a Western Town by Octave Thanet
Is there a Greenbacker here who is not glad we didn't do it?
From Ingersollia Gems of Thought from the Lectures, Speeches, and Conversations of Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, Representative of His Opinions and Beliefs by Robert Green Ingersoll
Lucinda B. Chandler, being a Greenbacker on principle, was a regularly elected delegate and by courtesy was added to a sub-committee on resolutions.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
There was a case of an old gentleman in Chicago, a Greenbacker, who had three daughters, all of whom were Republicans.
From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV by Ida Husted Harper
