This week’s theme
Words related to politics and elections

This week’s words
shermanesque
carpetbagger
logrolling
dog whistle
suffrage

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(LOG-ro-ling)

MEANING:

noun:
1. The exchanging of favors, especially by legislators by voting for each other’s legislation.
2. A sport in which two players stand on a floating log and try to knock each other off by spinning the log with their feet.

ETYMOLOGY:

From the former practice of neighbors helping each other move logs by rolling them. Earliest documented use: 1792.

USAGE:

“Potential externals are identified by the supervisor and through a system of logrolling enticed to take on the duty -- as a favour that it is anticipated will be returned.”
John Wakeford; Postgraduate Courses: What Goalposts?; The Guardian (London, UK); Sep 17, 2002.

See more usage examples of logrolling in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: