mismanagement
- noun
- /ˌmɪsˈmænɪdʒmənt/
- The company faced severe consequences due to years of financial mismanagement that eroded its profits.
- economic mismanagement
- gross mismanagement
- fiscal mismanagement
He got taken down by me too stuff, not by his gross mismanagement that actually led to deaths during COVID.
- He got taken down by me too stuff, not by his gross mismanagement that actually led to deaths during COVID.
- There was also a lot of mismanagement by the, the state, by, you know, under the, the governor's regime.
- It shows you how mismanaged the pandemic was and how the impact of that mismanagement had on the on on kids progress and academic well-being.
- The failure of Silicon Valley Bank was driven by failures of both regulation and banking supervision along with gross mismanagement.
- This is gross mismanagement of the Democratic caucus, whatever it's called for party for making him the candidate.
Examples
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Environmentalists also point to government mismanagement, patronage, and corruption in the environmental arena.
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Crop failure stemming from environmental mismanagement seems to be the most widely accepted explanation.
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What are the reasons for this long and continuing history of resource mismanagement in Australia?
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At the front, losses were enormous, while in the cities economic mismanagement led to rising prices and food shortages.
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At times, there was outright mismanagement and other dysfunctions common to this school.
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City Hall is the decaying symbol of mismanagement and corruption.
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The foreign donors, like members of the opposition, are upset by the fiscal mismanagement and continuing high-level corruption.
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Canada's federal government must also shoulder part of the blame for the mismanagement of Alberta's oil revenues.
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Meanwhile, oscillating oil prices and government mismanagement could drain their coffers and force them to cut popular subsidies.
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Alberta's natural-resource mismanagement can ultimately be traced back to two general pathologies.
Academic text (2017)
Synonyms
A situation in which money or other resources go to the wrong place
Poor or dishonest management of public services
Bad running of a country by people in charge who are inefficient and dishonest
Poor management of people, money, or work
Poor management of an organization or its money
Government that works badly and causes problems for people
Government that is dishonest, unfair, or does not help people
Antonyms
How Well Managed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word mismanagement comes from the part mis- meaning 'wrong' or 'bad' and the verb manage, which means 'to handle' or 'take care of' and is the same root as manager. So mismanagement literally means 'handling something badly', which is why it describes careless or inefficient management.