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lame duck

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lame duck
1. Business a company with a large workforce and high prestige that is unable to meet foreign competition without government support
2. US
a. an elected official or body of officials remaining in office in the interval between the election and inauguration of a successor
b. (as modifier): a lame-duck president
3. US designating a term of office after which the officeholder will not run for re-election


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Labour waiting until the last minute for a general election with a lame duck leader is exactly what the opposition wants and I'm sure they will use any influence they have to keep Gordon Brown in place.
Tough call; Yourview by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
As you can probably guess, I'm not so much a lame duck now as a dead duck" - Robert Tuttle, US Ambassador to London.
They say by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
In turn, Yeung is the biggest single shareholder but is effectively a lame duck.
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