Other forms: malpractices
Malpractice is careless or illegal conduct by a professional. Medical malpractice, sue for malpractice, alleged malpractice.
It is a failure to meet the standard of the profession rather than merely a bad outcome, which is the distinction every case turns on. In America it drives the cost of medical insurance enormously; in Britain the equivalent claims are called clinical negligence.
1nounmalpracticeCareless or illegal conduct by a professional.
“The surgeon was sued for malpractice after leaving a sponge inside a patient.”
malpractice is a misconduct.
Proto-Indo-European
*per- (fare)
Middle French
pratiser
an unknown language
practice
Middle English
practice
English
practice
English, today
malpractice
From mal- + practice. practice comes from Middle English practice, from an unknown language practice, from Middle French pratiser. The noun is from Middle English practice, practique, practyse, from the verb; also compare Medieval Latin prāctica.. Displaced native Old English sidu. The verb is from Middle English practice, practise, practize, practyse, from Middle French pratiser, practiser, alteration of practiquer, from Medieval Latin prācticāre, from Latin prācticus, from Ancient Greek πρακτικός.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA