- 1瀆職；不法行為（法律、新聞用語，多指有職權的人違法，公司高層也可說）
Malfeasance is illegal or dishonest activity, especially by someone who holds a job with power — an official, a company officer, a person trusted to act for others. It is a lawyers' and newspapers' word. You will see it in stories about government, banks, and public money. Everyday English might say , or they broke the law in office. Though actually, in careful legal talk it sits next to two sister words: misfeasance (doing a lawful job in a wrong way) and nonfeasance (not doing a job you should have done). Malfeasance is the one that means doing something you had no right to do at all. Students do not need those sisters at first, but if you meet the word in a contract or a headline, that is where it lives. It is not a word for a child stealing sweets; it is for using a role in a bad, often illegal, way.
組成From Old French malfaisance, from malfaire (to do evil), from Latin malefaciō: male (evilly) + faciō (to do, make). So “wrongdoing” — doing what you should not.
同家族的字
- malefactorsame Latin roots, but this is the person; malfeasance is the act
- misfeasancelegal sister word: doing a lawful job badly or in the wrong way
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
malfeasancenoun/ˌmælˈfiːzəns/
- 1
Wrongdoing.
- For starters, back-burnering malfeasance, usually in the form of graft, risks repeating the kind of disastrous mistakes that the United States made in Afghanistan.
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lawMisconduct or wrongdoing, especially by a public official and causing damage.
- By then, Mr. Altman had gathered more allies. Mr. Nadella, now confident that Mr. Altman was not guilty of malfeasance, threw Microsoft’s weight behind him.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。