Lame Duck

Definition: Lame Duck

Lame Duck

Noun

1. An elected official still in office but not slated to continue.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Nonpayment

Bankrupt, insolvent, debtor, lame duck, man of straw, welsher, stag, defaulter, levanter.

Crosswords: Lame Duck

Books

• Government in Transition: Lame Duck Congress and the Presidency (reference)

• Lame duck (reference)

• Lame Duck Presidents: Myth or Reality (Studies in Political Science (Lewiston, N.Y.), V. 5.) (reference)

• Meriden : odyssey of a lame duck : a study of government intervention in the motor-cycle industry--the way the money goes (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Political Economy

Honduras

The upcoming presidential elections in November of 2001 likely will affect the business climate, as presidential candidates publicize their economic agendas, and the current Administration enters a lame duck period. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

sakat (cripple, disabled), njeri pa fat (might-have-been, washout), kandidat i dështuar. (various references)

Arabic 

‏الرئيس الذي لم يتم إنتاخبه للمرة الثانية, ‏البطة العرجاء صاحب منصب. (various references)

Bulgarian 

уволнен чиновник, фалирал (bankrupt, bust, insolvent, on the rocks, played out, washed up), несретник (bastard, loser, waster), непреизбран член на конгреса, повреден кораб. (various references)

Czech

mrzák (cripple). (various references)

French

président provisoire, canard boiteux. (various references)

Greek 

καταψηφισθείσ βουλευτήσ του οποίου η θητεία δεν έληξε ακόμη. (various references)

Hebrew 

ק� �" רצוץ (broken reed), בעל מום (cretin, cripple, invalid), � כ�" (cripple, disabled, handicapped, invalid). (various references)

Hungarian

ügyefogyott ember (backwoodsman, backwoodsmen, fumbler, gawk, klutz). (various references)

Pig Latin

amelay uckday

Romanian

speculant care a dat faliment, raţat, om fãrã noroc, nereuşitã (break down, fail, failing, failure, miscarriage, Miss, naught, phlizz, rottenness), nenorocit (abject, baleful, disastrous, forlorn, grievous, grub, hapless, mean, measly, miser, miserable, pilgarlic, rascal, rotten, sad, scullion, unfortunate, unhappy, wretch, wretched), membru al congresului (congressman), infirm (cripple, crippled, disabled, invalid), ghinionist (failure, luckless, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, unlucky man), falit (bankrupt, insolvent), eşec (abortion, check, defeat, discomfiture, fail, failing, failure, fiasco, fizzle, flop, miscarriage, naught, rebuff, repulsion, set back, wash out), avion deteriorat, avion avariat. (various references)

Russian 

калека (cripple). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

slabić (cissy, dicky, milksop, weakling), preduzeće koje ne radi zbog loših finansija, funkcioner kome ističe mandat. (various references)

Spanish

incapacitado (disabled, helpless, incapable, incapacitated), débil (bad, dud, faint, feeble, flimsy, ill, infirm, light, weak). (various references)

Swedish

lam anka, odugling (dud, duffer, good for nothing, non-starter), insolvent börsspekulant. (various references)

Turkish

topal (cripple, crippled, game, lame), sakat (cripple, crippled, crock, defective, disabled, funny, game, gammy, handicapped, incapable of working, infirm, invalid, lame, malformed, wonky), iflas etmek üzere şirket, emekli olmak üzere olan yönetici, borcunu ödemeyen borsacı, aciz kimse (crock). (various references)

Misspellings

"Lame Duck" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: laim duck, laym duck. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: caulked, mackled, maculed.

-2 letters: almuce, almude, calked, calmed, caudle, cedula, culmed, lacked, lucked, mackle, macled, macule, mauled, mucked, muckle.

-3 letters: almud, amuck, caked, camel, cauld, caulk, clade, clued, decal, ducal, dumka, laced, laked, lamed, maced, macle, medal, muled, ulema.

-4 letters: aced, acme, alec, alme, alum, auld, cade, cake, calk, calm, came, caul, clad, clam.

+4 letters: multitracked.