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logroll

American  
[lawg-rohl, log-] / ˈlɔgˌroʊl, ˈlɒg- /

verb (used with object)

  1. to procure the passage of (a bill) by logrolling.


verb (used without object)

  1. to engage in political logrolling.

logroll British  
/ ˈlɒɡˌrəʊl /

verb

  1. to use logrolling in order to procure the passage of (legislation)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of logroll

1825–35, back formation from logrolling


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The week before Kitzbühel, in a Swiss bar, he’d chipped a tooth while trying to logroll a barrel.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 22, 2019

Formal peer review does not allow for free and quick exchange; it pushes scientists behind a veil of anonymity so they can snipe in secret or logroll for their friends.

From Slate ● Jan. 30, 2015

Trading the one for the other is a reasonable logroll.

From Slate ● Dec. 15, 2011

An "internal improvements" bill, calling for the expenditure of $10 million or $12 million on railroads and waterways, gave them their chance to logroll.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Poet poses publicly, the Scribe Knows how to vaunt, to logroll, and to bribe.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, August 20, 1892 by Various

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