英语词汇“buck-passing”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

buck-passing

noun [mass noun] informal

The practice of shifting the responsibility for something to someone else: I have seen a lot of buck-passing in the government in my day [as modifier]: buck-passing comments...

In relation to flooding and also coastal risk there does need to be one agency with a strategic overview so we do not get this buck-passing and we have decided to give this responsibility to the Environment Agency.
Just as vague and abstract language makes for bad prose, it is also the handmaiden of bad policy and the abettor of buck-passing.
More than a decade of chronic flooding has led residents to protest at what they see as shoddy workmanship and buck-passing.

单词	buck-passing
释义	buck-passing noun [mass noun] informal The practice of shifting the responsibility for something to someone else: I have seen a lot of buck-passing in the government in my day [as modifier]: buck-passing comments... In relation to flooding and also coastal risk there does need to be one agency with a strategic overview so we do not get this buck-passing and we have decided to give this responsibility to the Environment Agency. Just as vague and abstract language makes for bad prose, it is also the handmaiden of bad policy and the abettor of buck-passing. More than a decade of chronic flooding has led residents to protest at what they see as shoddy workmanship and buck-passing.
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