buck-passing
- 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
However, as two dissenting judges noted, this buck-passing argument fails too.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2023
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
Too many agencies with limited authority allows for buck-passing that ends nowhere.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 24, 2023
He will criticise the "regulatory maze" - citing 29 regulators for the financial sector alone - for creating opportunities for "waste, duplication, obfuscation and buck-passing".
From BBC ● May 19, 2018
