quango

美['kwæŋɡo]

近义词

反义词

复数: quangos;

quango 半官方机构

缩写自quasi-non-governmental organization.

quango: quango: [20] Quango is an acronym created probably in the late 1960s to refer, in a none too complimentary way, to an administrative body hovering in the grey area between public accountability and private control. It is commonly explained as being based on the initial letters of quasi-autonomous national government organization, but there is no actual evidence for that unwieldy phrase before the mid-1970s, by which time the acronym was already going strong. A more plausible source is the simpler quasi-nongovernmental organization, which was around in the late 1960s.
quango (n.): 1973, acronym for quasi-non-governmental organization (a descriptive phrase itself attested from 1967). Related: Quangocracy; quangocrat.

1. But transparency will make much more difference than yet another quango.: 但是透明化比设立又一个半官方委员会更能起到立竿见影的效果.