Quango is an English word with synonyms like organization or organisation. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Quango meaning
An organization that, although financed by a government, acts independently of it.
Synonyms of Quango
Using Quango
- The main meaning on this page is: An organization that, although financed by a government, acts independently of it.
- Useful related words include: quasi-ngo, organization, organisation.
- In the example corpus, quango often appears in combinations such as: the quango.
Context around Quango
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 6 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 12 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Quango
- In this selection, "quango" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, powerful, blundering, new, social, created and highlands stand out and add context to how "quango" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a new quango and accused the quango of taking. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "quango" sits close to words such as aanand, abcd and abdurrahman, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with quango
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
What was needed, he suggested, was a new quango. (9 words)
Critics last night accused the quango of taking advantage of taxpayers. (11 words)
Michael Russell's appointment to lead the powerful quango has proved controversial. (12 words)
Everything is down to someone else’s foul up, whether that’s a quango (created to take tough decisions ministers want to avoid taking themselves), the EU (which they’re still going to find a way to blame for anything they can), or local councils. (45 words)
Months later – in April 2016 – Hydramach was one of eight companies which won the grant to develop low fat and low sugar soups, ready meals and sauces from Innovate UK, a tech start up quango run by the Department for Business. (41 words)
As The Scottish Mail on Sunday revealed, the blundering quango Social Security Scotland dished out more than £1million of taxpayers’ cash in error but has no plans to ask for it back. (32 words)
Example sentences (12)
Michael Russell's appointment to lead the powerful quango has proved controversial.
As The Scottish Mail on Sunday revealed, the blundering quango Social Security Scotland dished out more than £1million of taxpayers’ cash in error but has no plans to ask for it back.
What was needed, he suggested, was a new quango.
Everything is down to someone else’s foul up, whether that’s a quango (created to take tough decisions ministers want to avoid taking themselves), the EU (which they’re still going to find a way to blame for anything they can), or local councils.
North development quango Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) is ploughing almost £2million into its crisis-hit Cairngorm Mountain ski centre.
That’s how you become head of the Met, or director general of this quango or that government department.
Critics last night accused the quango of taking advantage of taxpayers.
Months later – in April 2016 – Hydramach was one of eight companies which won the grant to develop low fat and low sugar soups, ready meals and sauces from Innovate UK, a tech start up quango run by the Department for Business.
However, the Welsh Government’s Environment Minister, Hannah Blythyn, made clear her opposition to shooting, which forced to the quango to alter course.
An essential feature of a quango in the original definition was that it should not be a formal part of the state structure.
This term was shortened to "quango" by Anthony Barker, a British participant during a follow-up conference on the subject.
This was a statutory body appointed and funded by central government (a quango ), with wide powers to acquire and dispose of land in the Docklands.
Common combinations with quango
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: