buck passer
noun
a person who avoids responsibility by shifting it to another, especially unjustly or improperly.
buck-passing
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a word derived from
buck passer.
Example Sentences
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It’s nothing but buck-passing middlemen in league with penny-pinching hospital executives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025
These individuals, in the Times’ telling, have in turn been exploited by a network of sponsors and employers abetted by bureaucratic buck-passing.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2023
In closing submissions to the inquiry in November, lead counsel Richard Millett KC accused firms of a "merry-go-round of buck-passing" in order to protect their own interests.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2023
Too many agencies with limited authority allows for buck-passing that ends nowhere.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 24, 2023
That failure to act has been compounded by confusion and buck-passing among jurisdictions and providers that often won’t work together or can’t figure out how to effectively collaborate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2022
