Usually means: Official nearing end of term.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word lame duck:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. lame duck: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lame-duck, lame duck: Merriam-Webster
  3. lame duck: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. lame duck: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. lame duck: Collins English Dictionary
  6. lame duck: Vocabulary.com
  7. Lame-Duck, Lame-duck, lame-duck, lame duck: Wordnik
  8. lame duck: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. lame-duck, lame duck: Wiktionary
  10. lame duck: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. lame duck: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. lame-duck, lame duck: Dictionary.com
  13. Lame duck (game design), Lame duck (politics), Lame duck: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. lame duck: Rhymezone
  15. LAME DUCK: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  16. lame duck: FreeDictionary.org
  17. lame duck: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. Lame Duck: The Word Detective
  19. lame-duck, lame duck: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Lame Duck: Investopedia
  3. Lame Duck, Lame duck (disambiguation), The lame duck, lame-duck: Legal dictionary
  4. Lame Duck, Lame duck (disambiguation), The lame duck, lame-duck: Financial dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lame duck (disambiguation), The lame duck, lame-duck, lame duck: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. lame-duck, lame duck: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. lame duck, lame duck: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. lame duck: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See lame-duck as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (lame duck)

noun:  (colloquial) A person or thing that is helpless, inefficient, or disabled.
noun:  (US, politics) An elected official who has lost the recent election or is not eligible for reelection and is marking time until leaving office.
noun:  (finance, slang, dated) A person who cannot fulfill their contracts.
verb:  (informal, transitive, intransitive) To behave in the manner of a lame duck.

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