malpractice

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Etymology[edit]

mal- +‎ practice

Noun[edit]

malpractice (countable and uncountable, plural malpractices)

  1. The improper treatment of a patient by a physician that results in injury or loss.
  2. Improper or unethical conduct by a professional or official person.
    • 2007, Stephen Prosser, To Be a Servant-Leader[1]:
      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.
    • 2019 October 7, Chris Murphy, “How to Make a Progressive Foreign Policy Actually Work”, in The Atlantic[2]:
      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.

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