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Bureaucratic buck-passing
Answer for the clue "Bureaucratic buck-passing ", 9 letters:
runaround
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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.).
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Runaround was produced by Southern Television for the ITV network between 2 September 1975 and 7 September 1981. It was much more successful than the original American version . The original host was comedian Mike Reid . In 1977 his place was taken by Leslie ...
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.
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.