different between maladministration vs misconduct

English

Alternative forms

• male-administration, maleadministration

Etymology

From mal- +? administration.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mal?dm?n??st?e??(?)n/

Noun

maladministration (countable and uncountable, plural maladministrations)

1. Faulty, inefficient or improper management or administration, especially by a government body. [from 17th c.]
   • 2002, Colin Jones, 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.

English

Etymology 1

mis- +? conduct (noun sense)

Pronunciation

• (UK): enPR: m?s-k?n?d?kt, IPA^(key): /m?s?k?nd?kt/

Noun

misconduct (usually uncountable, plural misconducts)

1. behavior that is considered to be unacceptable.

   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.

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Etymology 2

mis- +? conduct (verb sense)

Pronunciation

• enPR: m?s-k?n-d?kt?, IPA^(key): /m?sk?n?d?kt/

Verb

misconduct (third-person singular simple present misconducts, present participle misconducting, simple past and past participle misconducted)

1. (transitive) To mismanage. [from 18th c.]
2. (reflexive) To behave inappropriately, to misbehave. [from 19th c.]
   • 1958, Doris Lessing, A Ripple From the Storm, Harper Perennal 1995, p. 224:

     It had been pointed out […] that in the past enemy aliens misconducting themselves had been returned to the internment camp.

3. (intransitive, rare) To act improperly.

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