Meaning of Malpractice | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The improper treatment of a patient by a physician that results in injury or loss.
   countable, uncountable
2. Improper or unethical conduct by a professional or official person.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“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.”

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