different between organization vs quango

English

Alternative forms

• organisation (UK, Australia, New Zealand)

Etymology

From Middle French organisation.Morphologically organize +? -ation

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?????na??ze???n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?????n??ze???n/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /?????na??ze???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n
• Hyphenation: or?ga?ni?za?tion

Noun

organization (countable and uncountable, plural organizations)

1. (uncountable) The quality of being organized.

2. (uncountable) The way in which something is organized, such as a book or an article.

3. (countable) A group of people or other legal entities with an explicit purpose and written rules.

4. (countable) A group of people consciously cooperating.

5. (baseball) A major league club and all its farm teams.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• disorganization
• organizational

Related terms

• organize

Translations

Further reading

• organization in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• organization in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

From the initial letters (the first two letters for the first word) of “quasi-autonomous non-governmental organization”. Coined in 1967 by Alan Pifer of the US-based Carnegie Foundation.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kwæ?.???/
• Rhymes: -æ????
• Hyphenation: quan?go

Noun

quango (plural quangos)

1. (Britain) An organization that, although financed by a government, acts independently of it.
   • 1998, Ferenc Miszlivetz; Katalin Ertsey, “Hungary: Civil Society in the Post-Socialist World”, in Alison van Rooy, editor, Civil Society and the Aid Industry: The Politics and Promise, London: Earthscan, OCLC ISBN 978-1-85383-553-7; republished as Civil Society and the Aid Industry (Earthscan Library Collection, Aid and Development; 3), London; Stirling, Va.: Earthscan, 2013, ISBN 978-1-84971-042-8, page 78:

     The strongest link to the State, however, occurs with quangos, (quasi-NGOs), and the many umbrella groups that also thrive on State support. Many of the new parties realized after their Sturm und Drang years that they still needed regular contacts with the 'civil' world and that their civilian support base had been seriously eroded.

Synonyms

• parastatal

Derived terms

• quangocracy
• quangoism

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