Meaning of bab | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Initialism of blame avoidance behavior
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
2. Synonym of Set (“Egyptian god”).
3. A baby.
   UK, informal
4. ʻAlí Muḥammad (1820–1850), the founder of Bábism.
5. A bait for eels, consisting of a bundle of live worms.
   East-Anglia

Equivalents

Examples

“The worms were threaded onto the yarn until we had 4 or 5 feet of big juicy worms threaded through. We would coil it all up and put an old rusty nut at the centre and tie it on a bit of string on an old ash pole — this was the bab.”

“Blame avoidance behavior (BAB) encompasses all kinds of integrity-protecting activities by officeholders in the face of potentially blame-attracting events. It is increasingly common for scholars to scrutinize political decisions and their effects in order to establish whether, and to what degree, they have been caused by officeholders’ motivation to avoid blame. By now, BAB is considered a widespread phenomenon that is essential for a realistic understanding of the nature and workings of political systems.”

“In other words, politicians who feel distrusted may upweight the risks attached to policy failure, whilst politicians who feel mistrusted may upweight the risks attached to being ‘caught out’ in their BAB.”

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