- 1專業疏失；台灣談醫生時多說「醫療疏失」
Malpractice is when a professional person does their job so badly, or so , that a court can punish them or make them pay. In everyday English people hear doctors first: a surgeon who operates on the wrong side, a doctor who ignores a clear warning. Though actually, the same legal word can cover other licensed work — a lawyer, a dentist, an accountant — and it is often about negligence (not taking proper care), not about wanting to hurt someone. The mal- here means “badly,” not “evil on purpose.” It is a formal, legal word, common in news and insurance. It is not “practice” as in football practice, and not a small everyday slip.
From the word’s history
mal- + practice.
由 mal-「不當」和 practice「執業」組成。
組成mal- (badly) + practice (the work of a profession)
同家族的字
- practicethe work of a profession, such as medicine or law
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。
malpracticenoun
- 1
The improper treatment of a patient by a physician that results in injury or loss.
- 2
Improper or unethical conduct by a professional or official person.
- When such a breakdown occurs there must be a full examination of the corruption that has been committed, and the leaders involved in malpractices must be encouraged to give a full account of what took place.
- A national-security budget where we spend 20 times as much money on the military and intelligence agencies as we do on diplomacy, democracy promotion, and smart power, is foreign-policy malpractice in the modern world.
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。