logrolling

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The rolling of logs from one place to another; an occasion when people meet to help each other roll logs.

   “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.”

2. isim The act of balancing on a log floating on a river to guide it downstream, often involving rolling it using one's feet; birling.
3. isim 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.
4. isim 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.

   “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.”

5. isim Mutual recommendation of friends' or colleagues' services or products, such as book recommendations in literary reviews.

   “Near-synonym: backscratching”

6. fiil present participle and gerund of logroll.