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Brewer's: Pocket Borough
(A). A borough where the influence of the magnate is so powerful as to be able to control the election of any candidate he may choose to support. Well nigh a thing of the past since the introduction of voting by ballot.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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