Synonyms for lame duck
lame duck

Princeton's WordNet

1. lame ducknoun

   an elected official still in office but not slated to continue

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1. lame duck

   Synonyms:
   defaulter (at the stock exchange)

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1. David Abney:

   There are enough members of Congress that in the past have supported this that we think it is still a slight possibility this year, it would have to be in the lame-duck session, there is no doubt about that. And I am not at all predicting that this is going to happen, I'm saying we think there is a slight chance.

2. Tatiana Stanovaya:

   The successor issue disappears. The issue of Putin as a lame duck disappears.

3. Chief Executive Lance Fritz:

   It's a really hard call, it's very difficult to move anything in a lame duck session... but we'd like to see that and we'd really encourage that.

4. Jon Stewart:

   All cowards. All of them, now they say,' Well, this will get done. Maybe after we get back from our summer recess, maybe during the lame duck' — because they're on Senate time. Do you understand you live around here ? Senate time is ridiculous. These mother *** ers live to 200. They're tortoises. They live forever and they never lose their jobs and they never lose their benefits and they never lose all those things. Well, they're not on Senate time. They're on human time. Cancer time.

5. Cristina Martin Firvida:

   I don’t know why this had to be done on Day One, it makes it much less likely that we ’ll deal with the disability problem until the lame duck session - and that wo n’t provide a good result for American taxpayers.