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lame duck Noun

— A lame duck is a person who is handicapped or not efficient. The whole group wasted a lot of time only because of him. He's what I call a lame duck!

— In the United States, a lame duck is a politician who holds an office now, but lost the recent election or is not eligible to hold the position anymore; they are called a lame duck because they have very little power in the last few months of their service. Being accused of corruption, this congressman has become a lame duck.

lame duck

— noun an elected official still in office but not slated to continue

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While a post-election, lame-duck session of Congress will address the fiscal cliff, the deep differences between Republicans and Democrats on taxes and spending remain wide and difficult to bridge.

JERUSALEM - The resumption of peace talks between Israel and Syria after eight years of saber-rattling is not a diversion from the political troubles of Israel's lame-duck prime minister.

It took some time before the British came to understand that since President Jacques Chirac is a beleaguered lame-duck President, who will remain in office but not in power until 2007, he is in no position to agree to any such bargain.

But the round of peacemaking that America has recently embarked upon not only comes too late in the political life of a lame-duck president who has been defeated at home and abroad; it is also ill-conceived and unconvincing.

Should Bush, a lame duck president with little support at home and less abroad, now be allowed to appoint the next World Bank president?

For one thing, it makes the President a lame duck sometime in his second term.

However, the fate of Bush's friend, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, shows that lame-duck status can occur even without a constitutional term limit - indeed, without a written constitution at all.

Now a widow, she is exposed to the lame-duck syndrome, since she can't be re-elected again.

All of this suggests that, whether in the lame-duck congressional session following the elections or in the first few months of the new Congress, US politicians will likely dismantle the fiscal cliff.

It has become clear that the House Republicans will steadfastly refuse to vote for any increases in tax rates during the current lame-duck congressional session.

The current lame duck Duma, despite being dominated by communists, became more effective near the end of its tenure.

Matters were not helped when the Czech government lost a confidence vote midway through its six-month presidency of the European Union, leaving a lame duck European Commission.

He may decide that it is too difficult, in which case he will be a lame duck prime minister, condemned to serve out the three years remaining in Labour's current term with no hope of winning the next election.

There is no small irony in the fact that on November 15, America's lame duck president, the unilateralist George W. Bush, is hosting a multilateral conference to discuss reshaping the global economic system.