Maladministration vs Misconduct - What's the difference?
maladministration | misconduct |
Faulty, inefficient or improper management or administration, especially by a government body.
*2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 315-6:
*:Annual auditing was a farce, and since the Chambre de Justice had fallen into disuse after 1716, judicial checks on financial maladministration were non-existent.
Bad behavior.
To mismanage.
# (reflexive) To misbehave.
(rare) To act improperly.
As nouns the difference between maladministration and misconduct
is that maladministration is faulty, inefficient or improper management or administration, especially by a government body while misconduct is bad behavior.As a verb misconduct is
to mismanage.maladministration
English
(wikipedia maladministration)Noun
(en noun)misconduct
English
Etymology 1
From (mis-) + (conduct) (noun)Noun
(wikipedia misconduct) (en-noun)- The student was threatened with a £2000 fine and banned from using the university's computing resources for two weeks due to gross misconduct on the Internet.
Etymology 2
From (mis-) + (conduct) (verb)Verb
(en verb)- He misconducted himself with a chorus girl, according to his wife.
