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quango

[ UK /kwˈɒnɡə‍ʊ/ ]
NOUN
  1. 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.
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