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Crédit Mobilier
[ kred-it moh-beel-yer, moh-beel-yey; French krey-dee maw-bee-lyey ]
noun
, U.S. History.
- a joint-stock company organized in 1863 and reorganized in 1867 to build the Union Pacific Railroad. It was involved in a scandal in 1872 in which high government officials were accused of accepting bribes.
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People's minds were made up and nothing could change them, not even the Crédit-Mobilier scandal.
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His indiscretions had imperiled his reputation at the time of the Crédit Mobilier scandal.
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It is needless to go into the details of the Crédit-Mobilier scandal here.
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