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    [Noun]  | "mal*ad*min*is*tra*tion" | \ ˌma-ləd-ˌmi-nə-ˈstrā-shən \


    1: corrupt or incompetent administration (as of a public office)

    2: incorrect administration (as of a drug)


    Origin: 1639 ;

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     [ "maladministration" ]

    1:  Mismanagement that is clearly deliberate and malicious. Innocently incompetent mismanagement that has such detrimental consequences that it could not be worse if it were deliberate and malicious. (proper) A specific administration that meets either of the above definitions.

      * e.g.,  ... We still have two and a half more years of the Obama Maladministration ahead of us, but fortunately I can see 2012 from my house. 

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