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logrolling
(encz) | logrolling,sousedská pomoc Zdeněk Brož |
logrolling
(encz) | logrolling,vzájemné vychvalování n: Zdeněk Brož |
Logrolling
(gcide) | 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] |
logrolling
(wn) | 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, logrolling] |
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Logrolling
(gcide) | 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] |
blogrolling
(jargon) | blogrolling
[From the American political term ‘logrolling’, for supporting another's
pet bill in the legislature in exchange for reciprocal support,] When you
hotlink to other bloggers' blogs (and-or other bloggers' specific blog
entries) in your blog, you are blogrolling. This is frequently reciprocal.
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