1. logrolling(n = noun.act) - act of exchanging favors for mutual gain; especially trading of influence or votes among legislators to gain passage of certain projects;
is a kind of exchange
Derived form verb logroll1
2. logrolling(n = noun.act) birling - rotating a log rapidly in the water (as a competitive sport);
is a kind of spin, twirl, twist, twisting, whirl
1. 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. [1913 Webster]
2. 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. [1913 Webster]
logrolling, n. US 1 colloq. the practice of exchanging favours, esp. (in politics) of exchanging votes to mutual benefit.
2 a sport in which two contestants stand on a floating log and try to knock each other off.
Derivative:
logroll v.intr. & tr. logroller n.
Etymology:
polit. sense f. phr. you roll my log and I'll roll yours
N cooperation, coadjuvancy, coadjutancy, coagency, coefficiency, concert, concurrence, complicity, participation, union, additivity, combination, collusion, association, alliance, colleagueship, joint stock, copartnership, cartel, confederation, coalition, fusion, a long pull a strong pull and a pull all together, logrolling, freemasonry, unanimity, esprit de corps, party spirit, clanship, partisanship, concord, synergy, coaction, cooperating, in cooperation, in league, coadjuvant, coadjutant, dyed in the wool, cooperative, additive, participative, coactive, synergetic, synergistic, favorable to, unopposed, as one, shoulder to shoulder, synergistically, cooperatively, due teste valgono piu che una sola.