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mismanage

[mis-man-ij] / mɪsˈmæn ɪdʒ /


VERB
manage badly
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Yann Leriche, chief executive of Eurotunnel's owner Getlink, said the change was something the business "cannot mismanage", with problems "not an option".

From BBC • Sep. 4, 2023

“We didn’t have any money to mismanage, because we didn’t have any money,” Spence said of the JFK8 campaign.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 14, 2022

As he approaches a likely third term in power that would start next year, it could be politically damaging if his government were to mismanage Evergrande.

From New York Times • Sep. 26, 2021

“We’re in control of the game, and then we mismanage the puck four times in the last seven, eight minutes,” Coach Todd Reirden said.

From Washington Post • Nov. 1, 2018

Yet Themistokles, rather than allow an ignorant commander to mismanage the war against Persia, bribed him to lay down his office.

From Plutarch's Lives Volume III. by Stewart, Aubrey




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