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mismanage
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As a verb, mismanage means manage an area of responsibility in a way which is inept, incompetent, or dishonest.
Meanings of mismanage
3 meaningsverb
To manage an area of responsibility in a way which is inept, incompetent, or dishonest.
“She mismanaged my finances and left me bankrupt.”
To behave, in a management capacity, in a manner which is inept, incompetent, or dishonest.
“The fundamental reason why the company failed is that the CEO and other top managers simply mismanaged.”
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).
Synonyms by meaning
verb: manage badly or incompetently
Words that rhyme with mismanage
micromanage
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