quangos's Usage Examples:

bonfire of the quangos ' promised by Ron Davies several years ago.

According to a Parliamentary Answer I obtained last month, since 1997 we have had 29 new quangos established in Scotland.

Councils, health boards and quangos will be ordered to cut waste and eliminate duplication.

Yet the money is handed out by appointed quangos.

Hospital Doctor reports anger among the BMA and grass-roots doctors over Government plans to merge health service quangos.

indefensible decisions by the Government and its quangos.

Nevertheless, we do not want to create more quangos for the sake of it.

At the moment, we know that we can go to see the Chief Executives and the board members of the relevant quangos.

Hence we have centralizing of local services into the control of pseudo regional quangos.

There has been no great bonfire of unelected quangos, indeed far from it.

Synonyms:

organisation, organization, quasi-NGO,

Antonyms:

nonalignment, finish, inactivity,