malpractice

CEFRB2

/mæˈlpræktəs/

noun

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In plain English

01
noun
Careless or illegal professional behavior that causes harm.
02
noun
Extra detail
Improper or unethical conduct by a professional or official person.

Examples

Malpractice insurance is a contributing factor to the high cost of medical care.
The doctor who treated Tom should be sued for malpractice.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Deep Dive

Extra meaning

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

In context

You should be sued for malpractice.
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.
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.

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Question 1 · Quick check

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

The word in print, with each source given in full.

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.
2007, Stephen Prosser, To Be a Servant-Leader
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.
2019 October 7, Chris Murphy, “How to Make a Progressive Foreign Policy Actually Work”, in The Atlantic
“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.
2025 April 19, Michael S. Schmidt, Michael C. Bender, quoting May Mailman, “Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

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