malpractice

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19
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24
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11

Definition of malpractice

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)The improper treatment of a patient by a physician that results in injury or loss.
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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)The improper treatment of a patient by a physician that results in injury or loss.
  2. (countable, uncountable)Improper or unethical conduct by a professional or official person.
    “When such a breakdown occurs there must be a full examination of the corruption that has been committed, and the leaders involved in malpractices must be encouraged to give a full account of what took place.”
    “A national-security budget where we spend 20 times as much money on the military and intelligence agencies as we do on diplomacy, democracy promotion, and smart power, is foreign-policy malpractice in the modern world.”
    ““It was malpractice on the side of Harvard’s lawyers not to pick up the phone and call the members of the antisemitism task force who they had been talking to for weeks,” said May Mailman, the White House senior policy strategist.”

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Etymology

From mal- + practice.

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