accountability sink
C2CEFR level
92/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
A structural arrangement in which responsibility dissolves so that no individual can be held to account.
The approvals committee is an accountability sink; when the decision goes wrong, everyone just points at the group.
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