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buck-passing
noun
Blame shifting; the act of absolving oneself of responsibility or concern for a given matter by claiming to lack authority or jurisdiction.
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This is no more than buck-passing.
The expected decision smacks of buck-passing.
Birmingham accused Jones of buck-passing.
I sense some buck-passing going on".
His post-match observations sounded like a buck-passing whinge.
But buck-passing was the order of the day.
The ultimate act of Sunday league buck-passing.
In other words, it's another case of buck-passing.
In the meantime the postmortems and buck-passing began.
Some hope.The most vigorous activity visible in officialdom is energetic buck-passing.
It also provides fertile ground for bureaucratic shirking and buck-passing.
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