lame duck

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A person or thing that is helpless, inefficient, or disabled.

   “A few days after our dinner at the Albion, Glover's city speculations, in spite of his unceasing attention in watching the marker, went altogether wrong, and the poor fellow waddled away from Chapel Court a defaulter, or as the stock-brokers emphatically called it, a lame duck.”

2. isim An elected official who has lost the recent election or is not eligible for reelection and is marking time until leaving office.

   “Congressman Jones was a lame duck and did not vote on many issues that were important to his constituents.”

3. isim A person who cannot fulfill their contracts.
4. isim A server that continues to serve ongoing requests while refusing new ones, allowing for graceful shutdown.
5. fiil To behave in the manner of a lame duck.