logrolling betydelse and definition

Betydelse av logrolling på svenska

• 0 the practice of voting for something that someone else wants in return for them voting for something that you want:

  • Logrolling is especially common when the legislators are relatively free of control by their national party leaders.

  • It was part of a logrolling package.

  • Attention has been drawn to alleged logrolling by authors in "books of the year" features published by newspapers.

  • I am not saying writers of those comments are engaging in logrolling, but they certainly read a different book to the one I did.

• 1 a sport in which two people try to stay standing on a floating log (= a thick piece of a tree trunk or branch), or other long, rounded object, while trying to make the other person fall off:

  • The group's eventual goal is to bring logrolling to the Olympics.

  • Her mum signed her up for a logrolling class at the local pond.

• 2 the practice of turning a person who is lying down in one movement, keeping their spine (= the row of bones down the back) straight:

  • To turn a patient by logrolling, the nurse first folds the patient’s arms across their chest.