Betydelse av scapegoat på svenska

• 0 a person who is blamed for something that someone else has done:

  • The captain was made a scapegoat for the team's failure.

• 1 someone who is blamed or punished for another’s faults or actions:

  • When things don’t go well, people always look for a scapegoat.

• 2 a person or thing that is blamed for something bad that someone else has done:

  • Politicians have used the financial sector as a scapegoat for the global economic crisis.

• 3 to blame a person or thing for something bad that someone else has done:

  • They scapegoated environmental laws as the problem of the economy, instead of looking for real problems.