screw-up

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screw·up

also screw-up  (skro͞o′ŭp′)
n. Slang
1. One that makes a mess of an undertaking; a bungler.
2. A blunder; a mess: a managerial screwup.
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screw-up

n
1. something mishandled or done badly
2. a person who habitually fails or mishandles things
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Translations

screw-up

[ˈskruːʌp] Nlío m, embrollo m, cacao m
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References in periodicals archive
"Damage Control: How to Tiptoe Away from the Smoking Wreckage of Your Latest Screw-Up With a Minimum of Harm to Your Reputation" is a guide to making the least out of the worst.
But to set the stage for this grandiose project, we must first revisit a previous screw-up in our defence policy planning.
It was a screw-up in which Gore had help from all the forces that have long made the Democratic party dysfunctional: environmental groups who portrayed Gore as a :sellout; big-money donors with conflicting agendas; consultants peddling a paint-by-numbers populist message that focused only on the dangers and not the opportunities inherent in running on his trademark issue.
I was a television news junkie, and I wanted to read more about the shows, the stars and the screw-ups.
And if you aren't factored into the plan for your life, screw-ups and all, is it a good plan or a lousy plan?
You need to look at each other in the eye and deal with the issue to avoid screw-ups. Sonko needs to come clean to his partner, and so does Igathe, so they work things through."
The HSE said all affected hospitals have been notified and a review into the fault will be completed by the end of October but there has been a litany of screw-ups in recent times.
The shower can be a cubicle of mixed emotions for me, a place of exorcism where I consider the screw-ups of my day.
The duel between the altruistic Zordon (Bryan Cranston) and the corrupt ex-Ranger Rita Re pulsa (Elizabeth Banks) restarts in the present, millions of years later, at a small town called Angel Grove, where five 'screw-ups' acquire power-generating gems and form an uneasy alliance.
Meanwhile, Arab folklore is dotted with sayings that point to these verbal screw-ups, however, humans are habitually susceptible to these errors in everyday conversations, which induce a lingering sense of discomfort.
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