Usually means: Wrongful conduct by a public official.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. malfeasance: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. malfeasance: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. malfeasance: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. malfeasance: Collins English Dictionary
  5. malfeasance: Vocabulary.com
  6. Malfeasance, malfeasance: Wordnik
  7. malfeasance: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. malfeasance: Wiktionary
  9. malfeasance: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. malfeasance: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. malfeasance: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. malfeasance: Dictionary.com
  13. malfeasance: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Malfeasance: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Malfeasance: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. malfeasance: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. malfeasance: Rhymezone
  18. Malfeasance: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. malfeasance: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. malfeasance: Free Dictionary
  21. malfeasance: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. malfeasance: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. malfeasance: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. malfeasance: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  2. malfeasance: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  4. malfeasance: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  7. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  8. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  9. Malfeasance: Investopedia
  10. International Law Dictionary (No longer online)
  11. malfeasance: Legal dictionary
  12. malfeasance: Financial dictionary
  13. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. malfeasance: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. malfeasance: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. malfeasance: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  Wrongdoing.
noun:  (law) Misconduct or wrongdoing, especially by a public official and causing damage.

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