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Bureaucratic buck-passing
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runaround
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Wikipedia
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Runaround was a children's television game show produced by Heatter-Quigley Productions . The program was hosted by ventriloquist and voice actor Paul Winchell , airing Saturday mornings on NBC from September 9, 1972 to September 1, 1973. Paul would frequently ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Runaround \Run"a*round`\, n. a delaying or evasive, and sometimes deceptive, answer to an inquiry or request.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Landowners who get caught up in this bureaucratic runaround receive no compensation for their economic loss as a result of wetland determination.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also run-around , "deceptive, evasive treatment," 1915, from verbal phrase, from run (v.) + around (adv.).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An evasive explanation in the form of multiple excuses. 2 (context printing English) A section of type that is narrower than that of the column it is part of; typically next to an illustration. 3 A whitlow running around the fingernail but not affecting ...
Usage examples of runaround.
He's frightfully bitter against the people in Washington who gave him the runaround, and he insists that certain interests are trying to smother his process in order to build up their own business during the war and, more selfishly, after the war.