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fence-mending

noun

Definitions

  1. Social assistance given to a community in order to retain popularity with the electorate.

    • Patronage and political fence mending had come to bore him.

  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fence, mend.

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