Definition of "quangocrats" []

• Growth; development: achondroplasia. (suffix)

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• "But boasts of multimillion-pound savings have given way to claims that culling quangocrats is really about democratic accountability?"
• "On the Daily Politics yesterday, and again today, Phillip Hammond was made to look foolish and their list of the top 20 'quangocrats' includes many from the BBC, C4 etc, bodies that Hammond agreed were not quangos."
• "Today's details included in the ODA's annual report confirms that bosses at the construction agency are among Britain's most richly-rewarded "quangocrats"."