Mismanage
[mɪs'mænɪdʒ] or ['mɪs'mænɪdʒ]
Definition
(verb.) manage badly or incompetently; 'The funds were mismanaged'.
Typist: Suzy--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t. & i.) To manage ill or improperly; as, to mismanage public affairs.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Misconduct, manage ill, make a mess of, make a botch of, make sad work of.
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Definition
v.t. to conduct badly: to conduct carelessly.—n. Misman′agement.
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Examples
- I can't conceive how he contrived to mismanage his affairs. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Without an exclusive privilege, they have commonly mismanaged the trade. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- With an exclusive privilege, they have both mismanaged and confined it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Beneath the rule of this dirty mysticism, indolence and scoundrelism mismanaged the war. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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