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1 scapegoat
n. günah keçisi, şamar oğlanı* * *başkalarının cezasını çeken* * *['skeipɡəut](a person who is blamed or punished for the mistakes of others: The manager of the football team was made a scapegoat for the team's failure, and was forced to resign.) şamar oğlanı
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scapegoat — ► NOUN 1) a person who is blamed for the wrongdoings or mistakes of others. 2) (in the Bible) a goat sent into the wilderness after the Jewish chief priest had symbolically laid the sins of the people upon it (Leviticus, chapter 16). ► VERB ▪… … English terms dictionary
scapegoat — Ⅰ. scapegoat UK US /ˈskeɪpgəʊt/ noun [C] ► a person or thing that is blamed for something bad that someone else has done: »Politicians have used the financial sector as a scapegoat for the global economic crisis. Ⅱ. scapegoat UK US /ˈskeɪpɡəʊt/… … Financial and business terms
scapegoat — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ convenient, easy VERB + SCAPEGOAT ▪ become ▪ find ▪ make sb, use sb as … Collocations dictionary
scapegoat — noun (C) someone who is blamed for something bad that happens, even if it is not their fault: He claimed he had been made a scapegoat for the administration s failures. scapegoat verb (T) … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
scapegoat — (n.) 1530, goat sent into the wilderness on the Day of Atonement, symbolic bearer of the sins of the people, coined by Tyndale from SCAPE (Cf. scape) (n.) + GOAT (Cf. goat) to translate L. caper emissarius, itself a translation in Vulgate of… … Etymology dictionary
scapegoat — noun 1》 a person who is blamed for the wrongdoings or mistakes of others. 2》 (in the Bible) a goat sent into the wilderness after the Jewish chief priest had symbolically laid the sins of the people upon it (Lev. 16). verb make a scapegoat of.… … English new terms dictionary
scapegoat — noun find yourself another scapegoat Syn: whipping boy; informal fall guy, patsy … Thesaurus of popular words
scapegoat — noun Syn: whipping boy, Aunt Sally; informal fall guy; N.Amer.; informal patsy … Synonyms and antonyms dictionary
scapegoat — I UK [ˈskeɪpˌɡəʊt] / US [ˈskeɪpˌɡoʊt] noun [countable] Word forms scapegoat : singular scapegoat plural scapegoats someone who is blamed for something that is not their fault, especially because someone else wants to avoid being blamed scapegoat… … English dictionary
scapegoat — 1. noun /ˈskeɪpˌɡoʊt,ˈskeɪpˌɡəʊt/ a) In the Mosaic Day of Atonement ritual, a goat symbolically imbued with the sins of the people, and sent out alive into the wilderness while another was sacrificed. He is making me a scapegoat. b) Someone… … Wiktionary
scapegoat — scape|goat1 [ skeıp,gout ] noun count someone who is blamed for something that is not their fault, especially because someone else wants to avoid being blamed: scapegoat for: She is being made a scapegoat for the commission s own mistakes.… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English