maladministration
Syllables: mal·ad·min·is·trat·ion/ˌmælədˌmɪnɪˈstɹeɪʃn̩/US/ˌmælədˌmɪnəˈstɹeɪʃən/
maladministration noun: faulty, improper, or inefficient administration or management, especially by a government body; (countable) an instance of this.
Noun
maladministration (countable and uncountable, plural maladministrations)
- Faulty, improper, or inefficient administration or management, especially by a government body; (countable) an instance of this.
- Near-synonyms: mismanagement, misgovernance
- To combat maladministration and improve government efficiency, the ombudsman was established to function as an independent watchdog.
- Synonyms:
- misadministration, mismanagement, misgovernance
- An act of incorrectly administering a religious rite; also, a religious group that permits such a practice.
- […] I vvould have the Sacraments on their vvheels, and yet ſo that their mal-adminiſtration bring not epidemick judgements upon us, as the receiving unvvorthily did on the Church of Corinth.1656, Richard Vines, “What Must be Done where Discipline Cannot be Executed for Want of Administrators”, in A Treatise of the Right Institution, Administration, and Receiving of the Sacrament of the...
maladministration meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
maladministration in Tamil
- சீர்கேடான ஆட்சி, முறைகேடான நிருவாகம், சீர்கேடான ஆளுகை, முறைகெட்ட ஆட்சி
maladministration in Urdu
- اندھیر, بدانتظامی, بدنظمی, ہڑ بونگ
maladministration in Bengali
- প্রশাসনিক ব্যর্থতা, দুঃশাসন
maladministration in Malayalam
- faulty, improper, or inefficient administration or management, especially by a government body; an instance of this
- ദുർഭരണം duṟbharaṇaṁ
More languagesFewer languages
- maladministration in Kannada
- ಕೆಟ್ಟಾಳ್ವಿಕೆ, ದುರಾಡಳಿತ
- maladministration in Arabic
- سُوء إدَارَة sūʔ ʔidāra
Examples of maladministration in a sentence
- [W]hat I wanted to get at was this fact, that the liquor traffic was, through the maladministration of the Government, opened up in a community that expected to be kept free from it.1893 November 3, Francis S[tephens] Spence, witness, Royal Commission on the Liquor Traffic: Minutes of Evidence […] (No. 21–1894), volume...
- 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.2003, Colin Jones, The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, pages 315–316:
Synonyms of maladministration
Forms of maladministration
| plural | maladministrations |
|---|---|
| alternative form | maleadministration |
| alternative form | male-administration |
Origin of maladministration
PIE word *h₂éd From mal- (prefix meaning ‘bad; badly’) + administration.
Words formed from maladministration
Words that rhyme with maladministration
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Questions about maladministration
- What does maladministration mean?
- Maladministration means faulty, improper, or inefficient administration or management, especially by a government body; (countable) an instance of this.
- What is maladministration in Tamil?
- Maladministration in Tamil is சீர்கேடான ஆட்சி, முறைகேடான நிருவாகம், சீர்கேடான ஆளுகை. See Maladministration meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use maladministration in a sentence?
- [W]hat I wanted to get at was this fact, that the liquor traffic was, through the maladministration of the Government, opened up in a community that expected to be kept free from it.
- What part of speech is maladministration?
- Maladministration is a noun.
- How do you pronounce maladministration?
- Maladministration is pronounced /ˌmælədˌmɪnɪˈstɹeɪʃn̩/ (UK).
- What is the plural of maladministration?
- The plural of maladministration is maladministrations.
Words near maladministration in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: maladministration (page history and authors); maladministration (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); maladministration (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); maladministration (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); maladministration (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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