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- Dictionarymismanage/mɪsˈmanɪdʒ/
verb
- 1. manage (something) badly or wrongly: "he was accused of mismanaging the economy"
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to organize or control something badly: The restaurant was hopelessly mismanaged by a former rock musician with no business experience. Synonyms. misconduct. mishandle. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Managing and organizing. administer. administration. anti-bureaucracy. bronze command. flabbily. get up. get your act together idiom.
: to manage (something) wrongly or poorly. mismanage a business. … started thinking that maybe employees are sometimes mismanaged because they let themselves be mismanaged. They don't fight back. A. J. Anderson.
to organize or control something badly: The restaurant was hopelessly mismanaged by a former rock musician with no business experience. Synonyms. misconduct. mishandle. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Managing and organizing. administer. administration. anti-bureaucracy. bronze command. flabbily. get up phrasal verb.
Definition of mismanage verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Mismanage definition: to manage incompetently or dishonestly. See examples of MISMANAGE used in a sentence.
To mismanage is to handle something badly. A company will go bankrupt if its leaders mismanage it. If you mismanage your allowance, you’ll be out of money in no time. To manage is to handle or run something, so to mismanage is to make a mess of something you're doing or running.
A complete guide to the word "MISMANAGE": definitions, pronunciations, synonyms, grammar insights, collocations, examples, and translations.
Define mismanage. mismanage synonyms, mismanage pronunciation, mismanage translation, English dictionary definition of mismanage. tr.v. mis·man·aged , mis·man·ag·ing , mis·man·ag·es To manage badly or carelessly. mis·man′age·ment n.
(Definition of mismanage from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
To mismanage something means to manage it badly. 75% of voters think the President has mismanaged the economy. American English : mismanage / mɪˈsmænɪdʒ /
