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passed buck
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pass the buck
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pass responsibility on to another |
| Synonyms: | cop out, dodge, duck, get out of, pass on, relay, slide out of |
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| Main Entry: | elude |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | avoid; escape |
| Synonyms: | baffle, be beyond someone, beat around the bush, bilk, circumvent, confound, cop out, ditch, dodge, double, duck, eschew, evade, flee, fly, foil, frustrate, get around, get away from, give the runaround, give the slip, give wide berth to, hem and haw, not touch, outrun, outwit, pass the buck, pass up, puzzle, run around, shirk, shuck, shun, shy, stall, stay shy of, steer clear of, stonewall, stump, thwart |
| Notes: | elude means to escape or evade from while allude means to make a more or less indirect reference to |
| Antonyms: | attract, confront, encounter, entice, face, invite, meet, take on |
| Main Entry: | equivocate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | avoid an issue |
| Synonyms: | beat around the bush, beg the question, blow hot and cold, cavil, cloud the issue, con, cop a plea, cop out, cover up, dodge, double-talk, elude, escape, eschew, evade, falsify, fence, fib, flip-flop, fudge, give run around, hedge, hem and haw, jive, lie, mince words, palter, parry, pass the buck, prevaricate, pussyfoot, quibble, run around, shuck, shuffle, sidestep, sit on the fence, stonewall, tell white lie, tergiversate, tergiverse, waffle, weasel |
| Antonyms: | face, meet, speak on |
| Main Entry: | hedge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | avoid, dodge |
| Synonyms: | be noncommittal, beat around the bush, blow hot and cold, cop a plea, cop out, duck, equivocate, evade, flip-flop, fudge, give the run around, hem and haw, jive, pass the buck, prevaricate, pussyfoot, quibble, run around, shilly-shally, shuck, shuffle, sidestep, sit on the fence, stall, stonewall, temporize, tergiversate, tergiverse, waffle |
| Antonyms: | confront, face, meet |
| Main Entry: | transfer |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pass possession to |
| Synonyms: | assign, bear, bring, carry, cart, cede, change, consign, convert, convey, deed, delegate, deliver, dislocate, dispatch, dispense, displace, disturb, express, feed, ferry, find, forward, give, hand, hand over, haul, lug, mail, make over, metamorphose, move, pass on, pass the buck, post, provide, relegate, relocate, remove, sell, send, shift, ship, shoulder, sign over, supply, taxi, tote, transfigure, translate, transmit, transmogrify, transmute, transplant, transport, transpose, turn over |
| Antonyms: | hold, keep |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | transfer |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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Adjectives: |
alienable, contagious, cruciferous, drifted, efferent, gerent, mastigophoric, movable, onerary, peak, portative, prehensile, smittlish, superlunar, surpassing, transanimating, transferred, transmundane, transnational, tursable, ultra vires, ultramontane, ultramundane
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| Concept: | Transfer. |
| Category: | 2. Transfer of Property |
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-nouns
transfer, conveyance, assignment, alienation, abalienation; demise, limitation; conveyancing; transmission (transference); enfeoffment, bargain and sale, lease and release; exchange (interchange); barter; substitution., succession, reversion; shifting use, shifting trust; devolution.
-verbs
transfer, convey; alienate, alien; assign; grant (confer); consign; make over, hand over; pass, hand, transmit, negotiate; hand down; exchange(interchange)., change hands, change hands from one to another; devolve, succeed; come into possession (acquire)., abalienate; disinherit; dispossess; substitute.
-adjectives
alienable, negotiable.
-phrases
estate coming into possession.
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