[usuallybeforenoun] offered as a sacrifice:
a sacrificial lamb * (figurative) Our department became the sacrificial lamb when the company decided to downsize (= we lost our jobs so that other departments could stay in business).
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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In this entry, sacrificial is tagged as adjective.
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