misdirection
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6.8
- noun
- /ˌmɪsdɪˈrɛkʃən/
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mala gestión
- However, because the critique was not framed within a larger argument about the misdirection of U.S. Middle East policy, it could be—and was—characterized as a partisan attack on the nation's leader at a moment of national crisis.
Examples
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Wollstonecraft had warned against the misdirection of sympathy in her chapter on "False Sensibility" in The Female Reader, and she links its uselessness to female vanity.
Academic text (2010) -
And the misdirection helped the Pakistani government weather the domestic backlash.
Academic text (2014) -
It is a huge misdirection of energies and political resources.
Blog text (16) -
"In the misdirection of labor and the distortion of the structure during the past business cycles, it was fairly easy to point to the excessive expansion because it was, on the whole, confined to capital-goods industries."
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Without democratic and free-market fixtures like the rule of law, civil society, an independent judiciary, a free press, effective tax codes, and fiscal accountability, all four are among the least privatized and reformed economies of the former Soviet empire and thus prone to misdirection and mismanagement.
Academic text (1998) -
The company's misdirection of funds has led to significant losses in the project budget.
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Many believe that the failure to address climate change is a misdirection of government resources that should be focused on environmental issues.
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Their misdirection in handling employee concerns resulted in low morale and high turnover rates.
Synonyms
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5.3
Careless running of an organization or its money
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7.5
A situation in which money or other resources go to the wrong place
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4.6
Using money or things carelessly in a way that causes extra loss
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8.5
Poor or dishonest management of public services
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7.2
Using valuable things like time or money in a wasteful way
Poor management of an organization or its money
Government that works badly and causes problems for people
Antonyms
How Poorly Managed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Misdirection comes from mis- meaning 'wrong', as in mistake, and direction meaning 'to guide'. So misdirection is like 'wrong guidance', which helps you remember it as bad or careless management of people or resources.