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What is a quango?

What is a quango? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (Britain) An organization that, although financed by a government, acts independently of it.
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I saw even on the banks of the quango as much as sixpence paid for a pound.
The American debate contrasts favourably with the cavalier way such issues in Britain have been relegated to a quango and the whim of an elderly bluestocking baroness.
On the 4th of April they reached the banks of the quango, here a hundred and fifty yards wide.
Last week he was history, with the board of the quango deciding it was time for a change.
For English Heritage, the quango that owns Stonehenge, it signals the end of state control of heritage.
And health provision is controlled by Swindon's primary care trust an unelected quango with councillors confined to an advisory role.

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