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Definition of Logrolling
1. Noun. Act of exchanging favors for mutual gain; especially trading of influence or votes among legislators to gain passage of certain projects.
2. Noun. Rotating a log rapidly in the water (as a competitive sport).
Generic synonyms: Spin, Twirl, Twist, Twisting, Whirl
Category relationships: Athletics, Sport
Definition of Logrolling
1. n. 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.
Definition of Logrolling
1. Noun. The rolling of logs. ¹
2. Noun. A concerted effort to push forward mutually advantageous legislative agendas. ¹
3. Noun. Mutual recommendation of friends' or colleagues' services or products. Commonly used in the context of book recommendations in literary reviews etc. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Logrolling
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Logrolling
Literary usage of Logrolling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Internal Relations of the Cities, Towns, Villages, Counties, and States of by Maurice A. Richter (1859)
"logrolling. — Party should cease in Congress when sworn in. — Presidential Patronage.
— Political Martyrs a Nuisance. — Factitious Speaking. — Demagogues. ..."
2. The House of Lords and Ideological Politics: Lord Salisbury's Referendal by Corinne Comstock Weston (1995)
"WEHLecky, Democracy and liberty, 1, 437 refers to the logrolling strategy ...
One abuse was logrolling by minorities. Too often under the present system the ..."
3. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"logrolling. logrolling is a union of interest to secure legislation. Attorney General
v. Amos, 27 NW 571, 572, 60 Mich. 372 (citing People v. ..."
4. Proceedings and Debates of the Convention of the Commonwealth of by Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention, Pennsylvania, John Agg (1838)
"The object of the gentlemen, they say, is to prevent logrolling. logrolling is,
to be sure, a great evil, but not so great an evil as it would be to submit ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"logrolling is another example of co-operation among backwoodsmen, ... logrolling
came early into use as a term of the art of practical politics to signify ..."
6. Documents on the State-wide Initiative, Referendum and Recall by Birl Earl Schultz (1912)
"logrolling. — We offer an amended oath of office pledging the members against
the practice. An action is authorized by any ten citizen freeholders against ..."
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