quango
美['kw??ɡo]
- n. 半官方機構；半獨立國家的政府組織
詞態(tài)變化
復數:?quangos;
中文詞源
quango 半官方機構
縮寫自quasi-non-governmental organization.
英文詞源
- quango
- quango: [20] Quango is an acronym created probably in the late 1960s to refer, in a none too complimentary way, to an administrative body hovering in the grey area between public accountability and private control. It is commonly explained as being based on the initial letters of quasi-autonomous national government organization, but there is no actual evidence for that unwieldy phrase before the mid-1970s, by which time the acronym was already going strong. A more plausible source is the simpler quasi-nongovernmental organization, which was around in the late 1960s.
- quango (n.)
- 1973, acronym for quasi-non-governmental organization (a descriptive phrase itself attested from 1967). Related: Quangocracy; quangocrat.
雙語例句
- 1. But transparency will make much more difference than yet another quango.
- 但是透明化比設立又一個半官方委員會更能起到立竿見影的效果.
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