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sausagemaking en · NOUN

Etymology

From sausage + making.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) The manufacture of sausages.
2. (qualifier:by analogy, uncountable) Lawmaking.
   • And White House officials admit they underestimated how ugly Capitol Hill's sausagemaking process would look in the spotlight, turning a debate about expanding health coverage, controlling costs and reining in the abuses of profit-obsessed insurers into a brawl over "death panels," taxpayer-funded abortions and congressional giveaways to Nebraska. 2010, Time - Volume 175, Issues 1-12, page 30:
   • In a complex process of legislative “sausagemaking,” legislative leaders assembled a bipartisan supermajority to win passage of this major reform. 2010, William B. Rouse, Denis A. Cortese, Engineering the System of Healthcare Delivery, →ISBN, page 455:
   • A freshman governor with little tolerance for legislative sausagemaking and a love for press conferences. 2004, Press Summary - Illinois Information Service:

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