transcription, транскрипция: [ skeɪpgoʊt ]
( scapegoats, scapegoating, scapegoated)
1.
If you say that someone is made a scapegoat for something bad that has happened, you mean that people blame them and may punish them for it although it may not be their fault.
I don’t deserve to be made the scapegoat for a couple of bad results.
N-COUNT : oft N for n
2.
To scapegoat someone means to blame them publicly for something bad that has happened, even though it was not their fault.
Ethnic minorities are continually scapegoated for the lack of jobs.
VERB : V n