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scapegoat
/ˈskeɪpɡəʊt/ verb [T]Definition
› to blame a person or thing for something bad that someone else has done: They scapegoated environmental laws as the problem of the economy, instead of looking for real problems.
(Definition of scapegoat verb from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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