corporate welfare bum

Definitions

A business corporation or business executive receiving significant financial assistance from government sources.

Canada, derogatory, idiomatic

Examples

“[A]nother $8 million went to keep⟳ alive Quebecair, a corporate welfare bum if ever there was one.”

“Meanwhile: every telecomm company is as big a corporate welfare bum as you could ask⟳ for.”

“Elon Musk . . . is also — and this you read⟳ less about — a serial, almost kleptomaniacal, corporate welfare bum whose greatest talent seems to be sucking at the U.S. government’s teat for personal gain⟳ and glory.”

“Corporate welfare bum Bombardier is already demanding a billion more dollars in corporate bailouts from Trudeau’s Liberals.”

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