logrolling Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun act of exchanging favors for mutual gain; especially trading of influence or votes among legislators to gain passage of certain projects
  2. noun rotating a log rapidly in the water (as a competitive sport)
    birling.
  3. verb work toward the passage of some legislation by exchanging political favors such as trading votes
    logroll.

WordNet

Log"roll`ing noun
Definitions
  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.
  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. "You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours."

Webster 1913