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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 How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Lame ducks come back to Washington this week and they're not going to do much. ``If we allowed our owners to have that kind of discussion, either formally or informally, we would inevitably make lame ducks out of a number of teams, which would be unfair to the public and a stupid thing to do. Powell's posse claimed that neither the secretary of state nor his deputy had ever said they intended to step down, and charged that the neocons were leaking a canard to turn the two men they consider lame doves into lame ducks. |
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