ALL meanings of lame duck
la·mé duck
L l - noun lame duck an elected official or group of officials, as a legislator, continuing in office during the period between an election defeat and a successor's assumption of office. 1
- noun lame duck a president who is completing a term of office and chooses not to run or is ineligible to run for reelection. 1
- noun lame duck a person finishing a term of employment after a replacement has been chosen. 1
- noun lame duck anything soon to be supplanted by another that is more efficient, economical, etc. 1
- noun lame duck a person or thing that is disabled, helpless, ineffective, or inefficient. 1
- noun lame duck a person who has lost a great deal of money in speculations on the stock market. 1
- noun lame duck sb or sth powerless 1
- countable noun lame duck If you describe someone or something as a lame duck, you are critical of them because they are not successful and need to be helped a lot. 0
- countable noun lame duck If you refer to a politician or a government as a lame duck, you mean that they have little real power, for example because their period of office is coming to an end. 0
- noun lame duck a person or thing that is disabled or ineffectual 0
- noun lame duck a speculator who cannot discharge his or her liabilities 0
- noun lame duck a company with a large workforce and high prestige that is unable to meet foreign competition without government support 0
- noun lame duck an elected official or body of officials remaining in office in the interval between the election and inauguration of a successor 0
- noun lame duck (as modifier) 0
- noun lame duck designating a term of office after which the officeholder will not run for re-election 0
- noun lame duck a disabled, ineffectual, or helpless person or thing 0
- noun lame duck an elected official whose term extends beyond the time of the election at which he or she was not reelected 0
- noun lame duck (Colloquial) A person or thing that is helpless, inefficient or disabled. 0
- noun lame duck (US, politics) An elected official who has lost the recent election or is not eligible for reelection and is marking time until leaving office. 0
- noun lame duck (finance, slang, dated) A person who can not fulfil his contracts. 0