Look up: logrolling

1. logrolling
   [n] - act of exchanging favors for mutual gain
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2. Logrolling
   Log'roll`ing 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 t...
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3. Logrolling
   • (n.) Hence: A combining to assist another in consideration of receiving assistance in return; -- sometimes used of a disreputable mode of accomplishing political schemes or ends. • (n.) The act or process of rolling logs from the place where they were felled to the stream which floats th...
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4. Logrolling
   The exchange of political favors, especially among legislators who agree to support each others' initiatives. Logrolling contributed importantly to the Smoot-Hawley Tariff.
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5. logrolling
   The act of vote-trading among legislators in the process of getting legislation passed.
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6. Logrolling
   Logrolling is a sport in which tow competitors stand astride a large floating log and try to dislodge the other by rolling the log different directions with their feet.
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7. Logrolling
   `Logrolling` is the trading of favors, or quid pro quo, such as vote trading by legislative members to obtain passage of actions of interest to each legislative member. It is also used to refer to the "cross quoting" of papers by academics in order to drive up reference counts. The ...
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8. Logrolling
   (sport) `Logrolling` (`log birling` or just `birling`), is a sport that originated in the lumberjack/log driver tradition of the northeastern United States and Canada, involving logs in a river (traditionally) or other body of water. After bringing their logs downriver, the lumberjacks have a...
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