Word of the day: parastatal

The word of the day is parastatal:

1. working with the government in an unofficial capacity.

(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/parastatal)

"In March of this year, the former president of Camargo Corrêa, the group that made the original 1979 plans, testified to paying 20 million reals in bribes (over $5 million) to representatives of parastatal power utility Electrobrás during Belo Monte's construction."

 - Mark Sabaj Pérez, "Where the Xingu Bends and Will Soon Break: A hotly contested megadam threatens one of the world's greatest assemblages of rapids-adapted fished and homogenized an incubator for evolutionary diversity", November-December 2015 American Scientist (http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2015/6/where-the-xingu-bends-and-will-soon-break)