noun
definition
An organization that, although financed by a government, acts independently of it.
Examples of quangos in a Sentence
At the moment, we know that we can go to see the Chief Executives and the board members of the relevant quangos.
Councils, health boards and quangos will be ordered to cut waste and eliminate duplication.
There's no need setting up even more Quangos to solve the problem, when many of the delivery mechanisms are already in place.
Yet the money is handed out by appointed quangos.
Nevertheless, we do not want to create more quangos for the sake of it.
According to a Parliamentary Answer I obtained last month, since 1997 we have had 29 new quangos established in Scotland.
There has been no great bonfire of unelected quangos, indeed far from it.
Hence we have centralizing of local services into the control of pseudo regional quangos.
And I will be attempting to stop the various left-wing quangos telling the police what to do, how to do their job.
Setting up new quangos does not guarantee good performance.
Hospital Doctor reports anger among the BMA and grass-roots doctors over Government plans to merge health service quangos.
John Reid promised to half the number of NHS quangos to save £ 500m.