English Dictionary

lone gunman

名詞

慣用表現

(idiomatic) An individual person who acts on his or her own initiative, without partners, especially one who has sole responsibility for doing something questionable, confidential, or iniquitous.

日本語の意味

単独で行動し、他者の助けを借りずに、自らの判断で疑わしい、秘密の、または不誠実な行動を行う人物。 / 比喩的表現として、誰かが単独で責任を持って、疑惑のある行為や秘密の作業を遂行する場合に用いられる。

After reviewing the audit, the committee found that a lone gunman within the department had made the unauthorized changes to the records.

監査を精査した結果、委員会は部門内で単独で行動していた人物が記録に無断で変更を加えたと結論づけた。

意味（1）

(idiomatic) An individual person who acts on his or her own initiative, without partners, especially one who has sole responsibility for doing something questionable, confidential, or iniquitous.

He continues, So when someone blows the whistle, the hospital has to start looking for a scapegoat. The hospital looks for the lone gunman—the individual, acting alone, acting counter to his training, who, through a gross act of incompetence . . . .

lone gunmen （ plural ）