Logroller

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Logroller \Log"roll`er\, n.
     One who engages in logrolling. [Political cant, U. S.]
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           The jobbers and logrollers will all be against it.
                                                    --The. Nation.


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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  18 Moby Thesaurus words for "logroller":
     Machiavellian, behind-the-scenes operator, eminence grise,
     finagler, five-percenter, fixer, four-percenter, gamesman,
     gray eminence, influence peddler, kingmaker, machinator, operator,
     pork-barrel politician, power broker, strategist, wheeler-dealer,
     wire-puller