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quangoism en · NOUN

Etymology

From quango + -ism.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The beliefs or attitudes of quangos.
    • John Walden, who was charged with monitoring this exercise in quangoism, found that many civil servants disliked this level of consultation. 1982, Philip Geddes, In the mouth of the dragon, page 70:
    • Whether it was corporatism or merely a limited experiment in quangoism, however, even the Labour government was starting to grow impatient with the MSC's independent autonomy, although such dissatisfaction was never overt. 2002, Brendan Evans, Politics of the Training Market, page 26: