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• 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 — 16.The scapegoat is attested in two ritual texts in archives at Ebla of the 24th century BCE. [Ida Zatelli, The Origin of the Biblical Scapegoat Ritual: The Evidence of Two Eblaite Text , Vetus Testamentum 48.2 (April 1998:254 263).] They were… …   Wikipedia

• 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 — 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

• scapegoat — [[t]ske͟ɪpgoʊt[/t]] scapegoats, scapegoating, scapegoated 1) N COUNT: oft N for n If you say that someone is made a scapegoat for something bad that has happened, you mean that people blame them and may punish them for it although it may not be… …   English dictionary

• scapegoat — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ convenient, easy VERB + SCAPEGOAT ▪ become ▪ find ▪ make sb, use sb as …   Collocations dictionary

• scapegoat — scape|goat [ˈskeıpgəut US gout] n [Date: 1500 1600; Origin: scape (from scape to get away (13 20 centuries), from escape) + goat; meant as a translation of Hebrew azazel (probably the name of an evil spirit in the Bible), as if it were ez ozel… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• 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 Wax — was a hip hop/rap/breakbeat act from Northern California, USA that was started by Marty James and Johnny Z (AKA J.DeVille). Johnny Z was in the band for a relatively brief time, but was active in Scapegoat Wax s earliest tracks, primarily those… …   Wikipedia

• 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 — [skāp′gōt΄] n. [coined by TYNDALE William (1530) < SCAPE2 + GOAT, prob. from LL(Vulg.) caper emissarius, lit., emissary goat, transl. of Gr(Ec) tragos aperchomenos, departing goat, used as transl. of Heb sair laazazel < sair, he goat + l,… …   English World dictionary