quango
IPA: kwˈɑŋgoʊ
noun
- (UK, Ireland, government) An organization that, although financed by a government, acts independently of it.
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Examples of "quango" in Sentences
- Genuine quango that does real work.
- And it's actually a charity, not a quango.
- This sounds like a grant to a quango to me.
- It was not an elected chamber, but a quango.
- Quango tends to be used in a dismissive sense.
- The point being that it isn't an unelected quango.
- The Times has accused Quangos of bureaucratic waste and excess.
- Doubtless the BNP would set up a quango to deal with this issue.
- Stevens is credited here as a newspaper publisher and Quango member.
- I have a request to add something on Quango as expressed in popular culture.
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