mismanage
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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to manage incompetently or dishonestly.
to mismanage funds.
- Synonyms:
- maladminister, botch, bungle, mishandle
verb
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(tr) to manage badly or wrongly
Other Word Forms
- mismanagement noun
- mismanager noun
Etymology
Origin of mismanage
Example Sentences
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Deirdre said the reason people are going to food banks is "not because we mismanage money. It's not because we can't budget. It's because there isn't enough to budget."
From BBC • May 24, 2025
WildEarth Guardians in their complaint blame “a century of unsustainable water uses and mismanage of the Grande” for conditions that barely allow the minnow and other protected species to survive.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 30, 2022
As he approaches a likely third term in power that would start next year, it could be politically damaging if his government were to mismanage Evergrande.
From New York Times • Sep. 26, 2021
I didn't mismanage our health care system.I didn't invent the housing crisis.
From Salon • Jul. 3, 2020
If he does not go astray in any other way, he will probably mismanage his money matters.
From Castle Richmond by Trollope, Anthony
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