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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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On the 4th of April they reached the banks of the quango, here a hundred and fifty yards wide.
To solve the growing problems, the thrusting entrepreneurs who run the strategic rail authority, a wholly appointed quango, had a momentous idea.
He has now written to the Learning and Skills Council, the government quango responsible for over-16s education, to ask them to look at the anomaly.
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.
The new system operates as a quango and is therefore undemocratic.
For English Heritage, the quango that owns Stonehenge, it signals the end of state control of heritage.

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