Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

quangoism

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: quan-go-ism
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The beliefs or attitudes of quangos.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"John Walden, who was charged with monitoring this exercise in quangoism, found that many civil servants disliked this level of consultation."
"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."

Etymology

From quango + -ism.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: quango

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does quangoism mean?: The beliefs or attitudes of quangos.
Where does quangoism come from?: From quango + -ism.

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