Pāir'ing-ōff, n.
n. A practice by which two persons of opposite opinions, as in a legislative body, agree to absent themselves from voting during a stated period. This practice is said to have originated in the time of Cromwell.
n. A practice by which two persons of opposite opinions, as in a legislative body, agree to absent themselves from voting during a stated period. This practice is said to have originated in the time of Cromwell.