malpractice — Английский словарь

Существительное

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

   Употребление

   • исчисляемое
   • неисчисляемое

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

   Употребление

   • исчисляемое
   • неисчисляемое

   Примеры

   Другие примеры (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.

Существительное

1. professional wrongdoing that results in injury or damage

   Более общие понятия

   wrongdoingwrongful conductmisconductactus reus

   Примеры

   the widow sued her surgeon for malpractice

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

   Более общие понятия

   wrongdoingwrongful conductmisconductactus reus

   Примеры

   he charged them with electoral malpractices