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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: logrolling (0.00929 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to logrolling.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: logrolling
logrolling
n 1: act of exchanging favors for mutual gain; especially trading
of influence or votes among legislators to gain passage
of certain projects
2: rotating a log rapidly in the water (as a competitive sport)
[syn:
birling]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Logrolling
Logrolling
\Log"roll`ing\, n.
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.]
[1913 Webster]
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.]
[1913 Webster]
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