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mismanagement

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mis·man·age  (ms-mnj)
tr.v. mis·man·aged, mis·man·ag·ing, mis·man·ag·es
To manage badly or carelessly.
mis·manage·ment n.
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Noun1.mismanagement - management that is careless or inefficient; "he accomplished little due to the mismanagement of his energies"
misdirection
management, direction - the act of managing something; "he was given overall management of the program"; "is the direction of the economy a function of government?"
screwup - the complete mismanagement or mishandling of a situation; "a typical bureaucratic screwup"
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Spanish mismanagement [mɪsˈmænɪdʒmənt] n → mala administración f
French mismanagement [mɪsˈmænɪdʒmənt] n → mauvaise gestion
German mismanagement [mɪsˈmænɪdʒmənt] mismanage n → Misswirtschaft f
Italian mismanagement [mɪsˈmænɪdʒmənt] n → cattiva amministrazione f
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She might scruple to make use of the words, but she must and did feel that her mother was a partial, ill-judging parent, a dawdle, a slattern, who neither taught nor restrained her children, whose house was the scene of mismanagement and discomfort from beginning to end, and who had no talent, no conversation, no affection towards herself; no curiosity to know her better, no desire of her friendship, and no inclination for her company that could lessen her sense of such feelings.
Mansfield Park by Austen, Jane View in context
Since some of the magistrates, if not all, have business with the public money, it is necessary that there should be other officers, whose employment should be nothing else than to take an account of what they have, and correct any mismanagement therein.
A Treatise on Government by Aristotle View in context
He was known to us all as being a most cruel wretch,--a common drunk- ard, who had, by his reckless mismanagement and profligate dissipation, already wasted a large por- tion of his father's property.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass An American Slave by Douglass, Frederick View in context
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