chiefs disease
n.— «The CHP’s fraud task force investigated possible abuse of disability retirement, specifically among its highest ranking officers.…Most startling of all, 80 percent of assistant chiefs retired on disability. Almost as many deputy chiefs did the same.…One source says the panel has subpoenaed more than two dozen people since mid-October and that the jurors are looking not only at specific cases but at the entire practice of what was known as “chiefs disease.”» —“More Questions In CHP Disability” KGO-TV (San Francisco, California) Nov. 24, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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