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   blame

   /bleɪm/

   verb

   • 1. feel or declare that (someone or something) is responsible for a fault or wrong: "the inquiry blamed the train driver for the accident" Similar hold responsiblehold accountablehold liableplace/lay the blame oncensurecriticizecondemnaccuse offind/consider guilty ofassign fault/liability/guilt toarchaic:inculpateascribe toattribute toimpute tolay at the door ofput down toset down toinformal:pinstickOpposite absolveforgive
   • ▪ assign the responsibility for a bad or unfortunate situation or phenomenon to (someone or something): "they blame youth crime on unemployment"

   noun

   • 1. responsibility for a fault or wrong: "his players had to take the blame for the defeat"

   Word Origin Middle English: from Old French blamer, blasmer (verb), from a popular Latin variant of ecclesiastical Latin blasphemare ‘reproach, revile, blaspheme’, from Greek blasphēmein (see blaspheme).

   Derivatives

   • 1. blameful adjective

   Scrabble Points: 9

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2. dobetter.esade.edu › en › moral-boundaries-organizationsThe blame game: Defining the moral boundaries of organizations

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   23 hours ago · The power to create, destroy, and change boundaries. The moral boundaries of an organization can be created, destroyed, or changed as a result of the choices made either inside or outside the organization. The creation of a moral boundary happens when an organization becomes a moral agent.

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   23 hours ago · Ethics is the philosophical study of moral phenomena. Also called moral philosophy, it investigates normative questions about what people ought to do or which behavior is morally right. The main branches of ethics include normative ethics, applied ethics, and metaethics . Normative ethics aims to find general principles that govern how people ...

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   23 hours ago · Obesity is a medical condition, sometimes considered a disease, [8] [9] [10] in which excess body fat has accumulated to such an extent that it can potentially have negative effects on health. People are classified as obese when their body mass index (BMI)—a person's weight divided by the square of the person's height—is over 30 kg / m 2 ...