Usually means: Shifting responsibility to someone else.
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  1. buck-passing: Merriam-Webster
  2. buck-passing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. buck-passing: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. buck-passing: Wordnik
  5. buck-passing: Wiktionary
  6. buck-passing: Dictionary.com
  7. Buck-passing, Buck passing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. buck-passing: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  Buck passing, or passing the buck, or sometimes (playing) the blame game, is the act of attributing to another person or group one's own responsibility.


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