scapegoat
/ˈskeɪpgəʊt/ noun [C]Definition
› 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.
(Definition of scapegoat noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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