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Bureaucratic buck-passing
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runaround
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Word definitions for runaround in dictionaries
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.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In typography , a runaround is where the ends of lines of text are adjusted to conform to a box or irregular shape, rather than a simple vertical column margin. This is done where an image or other content (known as an intrusion ) occupies part of a column, ...
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 ...
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.).
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.