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the maladministration
noun
Faulty, inefficient or improper management or administration, especially by a government body.
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(He means the period before he came into office; his critics say the maladministration continues).
How do we protect against a repeat of the maladministration of the trust fund?
The maladministration of tax credits is causing great misery and needs to be reformed".
If the maladministration has caused their investment losses, then of course they should be compensated, but much more likely, the maladministration meant you bought an Equitable Life policy rather than a Standard Life policy, for example, and the compensation would then be the relative loss you've suffered".
It's a big job to take on – especially at the very moment you've got to handle the teachers' strikes and the fallout from the maladministration and unsuitability of the Sats, along with all those schools you're converting to academies and all those failing academies you've got to convert into academies.
These policy statements and resulting changes in procedure have done much to reduce the risks of the maladministration of vinca alkaloids.
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But the fact that these ships were being encouraged to enter Venice is just a symptom of the general maladministration of the city and its environment.
But some of the worst maladministration takes place in areas such as defence procurement that cannot be devolved.
The gross maladministration that preceded it will be forgotten, which is, of course, what good PR is all about.
A politician brave or foolish enough to accept appointment at this low ebb will be rewarded with the baffled sympathy of friends and the mockery of rivals.Prospective commissioners have only to read the investigators' report to see that the problems of maladministration at the commission go wide and deep.
No Blairite speak-your-weight machine, he lambasted the Medical Research Council for maladministration and the Royal Society for its paucity of women fellows, and was an outspoken antiwar rebel on Iraq.
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