[
UK
/kwˈɒnɡəʊ/
]
NOUN
- a quasi nongovernmental organization; an organization that is financed by the government yet acts independently of the government
How To Use quango In A Sentence
- He can flit from populist argument to high brow abstraction and then back into quango-speak and then consultancy jargon with amazing felicity.
- Buying Scottish" is one way to go about fighting our own corner but another bonfire of the quangos and further streamlining from the SNP would be welcome. Working 9 to 5
- It is surely unique in Britain for a failed Conservative candidate to be chairman of not one but two quangos.
- And health provision is controlled by Swindon's primary care trust an unelected quango with councillors confined to an advisory role.
- IT'S good news the Government is cutting quangos but why only a third of them? The Sun
- Some departments and quangos have already begun redundancy programmes where areas are being wound down. Times, Sunday Times
- Elected assemblies will draw their powers mainly from central government, its agencies and quangos not from local government.
- Unless we devolve powers to county level and abolish the quangos, we will fail to energise local government to the challenges of the 21st century.
- It was in quangos and organizations outside the direct control of the government that women activists were most successful in struggling for better economic and political opportunities.
- Appointments to non-departmental bodies like quangos are subject to the scrutiny of the Public Appointments Commission.