saw-off Slang DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
1a n.
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.
1b n.
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.
2 n.
any arrangement by which one concession is balanced against another.