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/ˈlɒɡˌɹəʊlɪŋ/
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/ˈlɑɡˌɹoʊlɪŋ/
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ˈlɒɡˌɹəʊlɪŋ
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ˈlɑɡˌɹoʊlɪŋ
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The rolling of logs from one place to another; an occasion when people meet to help each other roll logs.
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As most of the county was covered with forest, it was necessary to clear the land of trees, in order to make way for farming operations. Clearing of the land was accomplished by means of logrollings, a practice whereby logs were heaped into great piles and burned. Much valuable timber was destroyed in that manner, but, as no markets existed for timber, it was the most expedient method of ridding the land of trees. Logrollings continued until probably 50 years ago, when markets for forest products arose and timber began to be sawed and sold.
Logrollings, for example, which occurred during the winter and early spring, took place in a series until the logs on every neighbor's farm were piled. So with many other chores, for cooperative patterns of work form an integral part of productive organization.
The rolling of logs from one place to another; an occasion when people meet to help each other roll logs. The act of balancing on a log floating on a river to guide it downstream, often involving rolling it using one's feet; birling.
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The rolling of logs from one place to another; an occasion when people meet to help each other roll logs. A sport in which two people balance on a log floating in a body of water, each one aiming to cause the opponent to fall off by rolling or kicking the log.
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Harkening back to the days when loggers had to break river jams free by carefully stepping out on floating logs, logrolling is all about maintaining balance. Also called birling, logrolling requires competitors to go head-to-head on a single log, trying to toss the other guy into the water by forcing him to lose his balance.
A concerted effort to push forward mutually advantageous legislative agendas by combining two items, either or both of which might fail on its own, into a single bill that is more likely to pass.
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What, for instance, did the honorable member for North Melbourne (Mr. Curtain) care about the Horsham extension? Not twopence, unless it helped him to get the "outer circle" line. It was much the same with the honorable member for Crowlands (Mr. Woods), the honorable member for the Avoca (Mr. Grant), the honorable member for South Gippsland (Mr. Mason), and others. In fact it was felt during the whole of the discussion that there was an excellent chance for good wholesale log-rolling. He believed a more wholesale attempt at log-rolling never was made.
Thus far, by a resort to the familiar method of "log-rolling," all attempts to put an end to the Northern and Southern divisions have failed, because of the union of the opposing interests with those that want large appropriations in different parts of the State; and it is quite probable that the same tactics will be successful in the future at all general sessions.
By its nature logrolling pays off concentrated group interests and ignores diffuse interests, like taxpayers, who are hard to organize. Since interests in expansion and militarism are typically more concentrated than the interests opposed to them, logrolling is inherently more apt to produce overexpansion than underexpansion.
Incentives to engage in the exchange of votes in legislatures, or logrolling, have existed since the inception of legislatures. Most prominently, logrolling is alleged in the United States, where a plurality rule is employed to elect representatives from single-member districts.
Logrolling is making mutually beneficial tradeoffs between the issues on the table. […] If a negotiator is positional or demanding, logrolling will be much more difficult. Logrolling is the art and science of being firm but flexible.
Mutual recommendation of friends' or colleagues' services or products, such as book recommendations in literary reviews.
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Near-synonym: backscratching
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A few years ago, in a sudden fit of self-righteousness, the Sunday Times announced loudly that it would not permit the sort of back-scratching and log-rolling that infest other literary pages to pollute its own reviewing.
I’ve been on holiday, and my son read a book I liked, so here’s an idle bit of logrolling which might be of interest.
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The show around him [The Celebrity Apprentice], with its cast of backbiting reality retreads and its blatant logrolling – the first challenge involved a beauty line put out by Tyra Banks, one of Mr. [Arnold] Schwarzenegger's "advisers" – was pretty much the same as always.
At the other end of the spectrum is the equally poisonous problem of friends saying nice things about friends in reviews, or 'logrolling' as it is known in Private Eye magazine.
The exchanging of favors.
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act of exchanging favors for mutual gain; especially trading of influence or votes among legislators to gain passage of certain projects
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rotating a log rapidly in the water (as a competitive sport)
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