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Webster 1913 Edition
Logrolling
Log′rollˊing
,Noun.
1.
(Logging)
The act or process of rolling logs from the place where they were felled to the stream which floats them to the sawmill or to market. In this labor neighboring camps of loggers combine to assist each other in turn.
Longfellow.
[U.S.]
2.
Hence:
A combining or mutual agreement in which one politician supports or assists another in consideration of receiving assistance in return; wheeling and dealing; – sometimes used of a disreputable mode of accomplishing political schemes or ends.
[Cant, U.S.]
Definition 2024
logrolling
logrolling
English
Noun
logrolling (countable and uncountable, plural logrollings)
- The rolling of logs.
- A concerted effort to push forward mutually advantageous legislative agendas by combining two items, either or both of which might fail on its own, into a single bill that is more likely to pass.
- Mutual recommendation of friends' or colleagues' services or products, such as in book recommendations in literary reviews, etc.