logrolling
pronunciation
How to pronounce logrolling in British English:
UK [ˈlɒgrəʊlɪŋ]
How to pronounce logrolling in American English:
US [ˈlɔgroʊlɪŋ]
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- Noun:
- act of exchanging favors for mutual gain; especially trading of influence or votes among legislators to gain passage of certain projects
- rotating a log rapidly in the water (as a competitive sport)
Word Origin
- logrolling (n.)
- also log-rolling, in the legislative vote-trading sense, 1823, American English, from the notion of neighbors on the frontier helping one another with the heavy work of clearing land and building cabins (as in phrase you roll my log and I'll roll yours); see log (n.1) + rolling. LOG-ROLLING. 1. In the lumber regions of Maine it is customary for men of different logging camps to appoint days for helping each other in rolling the logs to the river, after they are felled and trimmed -- this rolling being about the hardest work incident to the business. Thus the men of three or four camps will unite, say on Monday, to roll for camp No. 1, -- on Tuesday for camp No. 2, -- on Wednesday for camp No. 3, -- and so on, through the whole number of camps within convenient distance of each other. [Bartlett]
Example
- 1. We should rid ourselves of the vulgar ways of logrolling .