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English-Thai Dictionary

logrolling

N การ สนับสนุน กัน  การ ให้ ความช่วยเหลือ  help promotion kan-sa-nab-sa-nun

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

LOGROLLING

LOGROLLING Log "roll `ing, n.

 

1. (Logging )

 

Defn: 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.]

 

2. Hence: A combining to assist another in consideration of receiving assistance in return; -- sometimes used of a disreputable mode of accomplishing political schemes or ends. [Cant, U.S.]

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

logrolling

log roll ing |ˈlôgˌrōliNG, ˈläg -ˈlɔɡˌroʊlɪŋ ˈlɑɡˌroʊlɪŋ | ▶noun 1 informal the practice of exchanging favors, esp. in politics by reciprocal voting for each other's proposed legislation. [from the phrase you roll my log and I'll roll yours . ] 2 a sport in which two contestants stand on a floating log and try to knock each other off by spinning it with their feet. DERIVATIVES log roll er |-lər |noun

 

Oxford Dictionary

logrolling

log |roll |ing |ˈlɒgrəʊlɪŋ | ▶noun [ mass noun ] N. Amer. 1 informal the practice of exchanging favours, especially in politics by reciprocal voting for each other's proposed legislation. [from the phrase you roll my log and I'll roll yours . ] 2 a sport in which two contestants stand on a floating log and try to knock each other off by spinning it with their feet. DERIVATIVES logroller noun

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

logrolling

l ó g r ò lling 名詞 U ｟主に米 ｠1 丸太を転がすこと ; 丸太乗り競技 .2 ｟くだけて ｠(議案通過のための )相互取引 [協力 ], なれ合い, 談合政治 ; (作家 批評家同士の )ほめ合い .