scapegoat (noun)
1scapegoat — ► 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 ▪… …
2scapegoat — 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/… …
3scapegoat — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ convenient, easy VERB + SCAPEGOAT ▪ become ▪ find ▪ make sb, use sb as …
4scapegoat — 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) …
5scapegoat — (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… …
6scapegoat — 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.… …
7scapegoat — noun find yourself another scapegoat Syn: whipping boy; informal fall guy, patsy …
8scapegoat — noun Syn: whipping boy, Aunt Sally; informal fall guy; N.Amer.; informal patsy …
9scapegoat — 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… …
10scapegoat — 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… …
