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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1an.

in politics: an arrangement by which one party agreed, after an election, to drop charges of corruption against another if the second party would make a similar agreement.

Quotations

1908

This is the month for election protests. Next month will be the month of election sawoffs.

1953

Sometimes "saw-offs" were arranged, when protest proceedings were withdrawn by mutual consent.

1bn.

in politics: an arrangement between two parties by which one agrees not to enter a candidate in a certain riding if the other agrees not to enter a candidate in a different riding.

Quotations

1963

"If you're certain you can elect three members by a saw-off with the Conservatives, go ahead."

2n.

any arrangement by which one concession is balanced against another.

Quotations

1909

What's up? Someone getting married--or a legacy, or a saw-off?

1963

So-called "permissible concentrations" and "protection guides" are merely saw-offs between political, military or economic expedience, on one hand, and medical fact on the other.

1966

[Headline] Alberta hopes for sawoff on medicare with Ottawa.