Logrolling

Quick meaning: Logrolling is a noun meaning (countable, US) The rolling of logs from one place to another; an occasion when people meet to help each other roll logs.

Meaning

(countable, US) The rolling of logs from one place to another; an occasion when people meet to help each other roll logs.

More Meanings

1. present participle and gerund of logroll.
2. (uncountable, US, figuratively) Mutual recommendation of friends' or colleagues' services or products, such as book recommendations in literary reviews.
3. (uncountable, US politics, figuratively) 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.

Example Sentences

Near-synonym: backscratching

Logrolling is making mutually beneficial tradeoffs between the issues on the table. […] If a negotiator is positional or demanding, logrolling will be much more difficult. Logrolling is the art and science of being firm but flexible.

Logrollings, for example, which occurred during the winter and early spring, took place in a series until the logs on every neighbor's farm were piled. So with many other chores, for cooperative patterns of work form an integral part of productive organization.

Incentives to engage in the exchange of votes in legislatures, or logrolling, have existed since the inception of legislatures. Most prominently, logrolling is alleged in the United States, where a plurality rule is employed to elect representatives from single-member districts.

Word Forms

• logrollings

Synonyms for logrolling

Depending on context, synonyms include backscratching, birling.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include birling, roll, roleo, rolleo, roule, roly-poly.

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