logrolling

Meanings

Noun

• The rolling of logs from one place to another; an occasion when people meet to help each other roll logs.
• 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.
• Mutual recommendation of friends' or colleagues' services or products, such as book recommendations in literary reviews.

Verb

• Present participle of logroll.

Origin

• log + rolling, the figurative senses from the practice of neighbors helping each other do heavy work such as rolling logs in connection with clearing land and building.