malpractice — 英語辞典

名詞

1. The improper treatment of a patient by a physician that results in injury or loss.

   用法

   • 可算
   • 不可算

2. Improper or unethical conduct by a professional or official person.

   用法

   • 可算
   • 不可算

   例文

   その他の例文 (3)

   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.

名詞

1. professional wrongdoing that results in injury or damage

   上位語

   wrongdoingwrongful conductmisconductactus reus

   例文

   the widow sued her surgeon for malpractice

2. a wrongful act that the actor had no right to do; improper professional conduct

   上位語

   wrongdoingwrongful conductmisconductactus reus

   例文

   he charged them with electoral malpractices