Usually means: Incompetent or dishonest administrative conduct.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word maladministration:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. maladministration: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. maladministration: Merriam-Webster
  3. maladministration: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. maladministration: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Maladministration, maladministration: Wordnik
  6. maladministration: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. maladministration: Wiktionary
  8. maladministration: Dictionary.com
  9. Maladministration: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Maladministration: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. maladministration: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Maladministration: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. maladministration: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. maladministration: FreeDictionary.org
  15. maladministration: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  2. maladministration: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. maladministration: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See maladminister as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (chiefly government, uncountable) Faulty, improper, or inefficient administration or management, especially by a government body; (countable) an instance of this.
noun:  (Christianity, countable, obsolete) An act of incorrectly administering a religious rite; also, a religious group that permits such a practice.

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