[
UK
/kwˈɒnɡəʊ/
]
NOUN
- 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
- We don't need another quango or committee to get in the way between voters and MPs. Times, Sunday Times
- However, government ministers, the devolved assemblies, local authorities, quangos and all public bodies will be subject to the Convention.
- Cabinet sub-committees, bureaucratic sub-committees, commissions, boards and quangos provide the channels for processing corporatist interest intermediation.
- This will not be just another quango. Times, Sunday Times
- Mr Neyroud, 60, the former police chief in Thames Valley, has been head of the quango since 2006 and recently boasted of cutting a £71 million bill for management consultants that he inherited from previous organisations. They Just Don’t Get It. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
- Caroline Spelman's keynote speech as environment secretary got its biggest claps for pledges to protect rural services (her beat) and declaring she had cut more than one-third of the 90 quangos she inherited. Have the Conservatives gone from green to blue?
- The government appoints hundreds of people to voluntary bodies, quangos and committees of all kinds.
- Sir, How many quangos does it take to publish a poem? Times, Sunday Times
- He has now written to the Learning and Skills Council, the government quango responsible for over-16s education, to ask them to look at the anomaly.
- The word among property agents is that buildings are attracting just as much interest from government back offices and quangos as banks and fund managers.