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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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