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Tammany Hall in American English
noun: a Democratic political organization in New York City, founded in 1789 as a fraternal benevolent society (Tammany Society) and associated esp. in the late 1800s and early 1900s with corruption and abuse of power

Tammany Hall in British English
noun: the central organization of the Democratic Party in New York county. Originally founded as a benevolent society ( Tammany Society) in 1789, Tammany Hall was notorious for the corruption in city and state politics that it fostered in the 19th and early 20t

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