maladministration
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From mal- + administration.
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maladministration (countable and uncountable, plural maladministrations)
- Faulty, inefficient or improper management or administration, especially by a government body. [from 17th c.]
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, pages 315–6:
- Annual auditing was a farce, and since the Chambre de Justice had fallen into disuse after 1716, judicial checks on financial maladministration were non-existent.