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
Thomas A. Hendricks, a Greenbacker, was offered by Indiana and pushed on the supposition that this doubtful State could not be carried otherwise.
From The New Nation by William E. Dodd
Mr. Greenbacker, suppose the government issued $1,000,000,000 to-morrow, how would you get any of 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
