mismanage
to manage incompetently or dishonestly: to mismanage funds.
Origin of mismanage
1Other words for mismanage
Other words from mismanage
- mis·man·age·ment, noun
- mis·man·ag·er, noun
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How to use mismanage in a sentence
He mismanaged a state unemployment system that mailed checks to out of state prisoners but not to thousands of unemployed Californians who couldn’t pay rent or buy groceries.
Why Gavin Newsom’s Big Latino Problem Could Bring Him Down | Ruben Navarrette Jr. | August 25, 2021 | The Daily BeastNew York and Massachusetts sued FedLoan for allegedly mismanaging the loan forgiveness program and blamed the Education Department for lax oversight.
One of the nation’s largest student loan servicers plans to cut ties with the Education Department | Danielle Douglas-Gabriel | July 8, 2021 | Washington PostUnfortunately, the business was mismanaged and Amos ultimately lost control of the company and even his name and likeness.
After the bad press, documents obtained by VOSD suggest renovations were rushed and mismanaged.
Real Estate Debacles Loomed Large on Faulconer’s Watch | Lisa Halverstadt | December 10, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoThe 2020 election was a fair and secure success in the face of a catastrophically mismanaged pandemic and a storm of disinformation.
How to make the next election even more secure | Bobbie Johnson | November 25, 2020 | MIT Technology Review
Because, in fact, she did somewhat mismanage things last time, so one of the crucial “Can she govern?”
They are so simple in construction, that servants cannot mismanage them.
The Overland Guide-book | James BarberYet Themistokles, rather than allow an ignorant commander to mismanage the war against Persia, bribed him to lay down his office.
Plutarch's Lives Volume III. | PlutarchShe would marry Frank Randall; and between them they would mismanage, and ultimately ruin, the farm.
Fenton's Quest | M. E. BraddonI can't conceive how he contrived to mismanage his affairs.'
North and South | Elizabeth Cleghorn GaskellAnd yet how sadly we mismanage men, and misuse opportunities.
Life of John Coleridge Patteson | Charlotte M. Yonge
British Dictionary definitions for mismanage
/ (ˌmɪsˈmænɪdʒ) /
(tr) to manage badly or wrongly
Derived forms of mismanage
- mismanagement, noun
- mismanager, noun
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