Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The shifting of responsibility or blame to another.
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- noun
Blame shifting; the act ofabsolving oneself of responsibility or concern for a given matter by claiming to lackauthority orjurisdiction .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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That buck-passing attempt did little to bolster investor morale.
This Year, Davos Doesn't Deliver Francesco Guerrera 2012
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Dean Ashton as the brusque Payne, Simon Rouse as a buck-passing politician, and David Michaels as the honourable Mercer reveal the temperamental differences.
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Needless to say, it provoked an almost immediate buck-passing non-apology from the authority – but no immediate practical resolution.
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One of the main obstacles, Tudor says, has been the buck-passing of world leaders, who are always looking for someone else to make the first move, or for everyone else to agree before they will.
Sarah Anderson: Europe Takes the Lead in Drive to Tax Speculators Sarah Anderson 2011
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And as RTD has said, at length in the past, it is buck-passing middlemen who will be there signing off the end of days, rather than angry teenagers.
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The really clever bit is that NuLabour do this all over the place but always build in enough layers between them and us that they can employ many denials and excuses, (buck-passing) when it goes wrong (aka is unpopular).
Ooooh….. I didn’t know that! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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Time thus throws its flyweight avoir du poids on the side of the political class in the lengthy finger-pointing and buck-passing contest between the politicians and the financial community about whose responsibility the crisis was.
Conrad Black: Time's Fatuous and Egregious Coverage of Wall Street Prosecutor Conrad Black 2012
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Time thus throws its flyweight avoir du poids on the side of the political class in the lengthy finger-pointing and buck-passing contest between the politicians and the financial community about whose responsibility the crisis was.
Conrad Black: Time's Fatuous and Egregious Coverage of Wall Street Prosecutor Conrad Black 2012
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Mr. Obama's embrace of the International Criminal Court is typical of his buck-passing approach to world affairs.
A United Nations Court For Gadhafi? John Bolton 2011
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One of the main obstacles, Tudor says, has been the buck-passing of world leaders, who are always looking for someone else to make the first move, or for everyone else to agree before they will.
Sarah Anderson: Europe Takes the Lead in Drive to Tax Speculators Sarah Anderson 2011
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