Malpractice
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Malpractice is a noun meaning The improper treatment of a patient by a physician that results in injury or loss.
Meaning
The improper treatment of a patient by a physician that results in injury or loss.
More Meanings
- (tort law) Improper or unethical conduct by a professional or official person.
Example Sentences
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.
Word Forms
- malpractices
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include breach, divergence, corruption, manipulation, irregularity, misbehaviour.
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