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mismanage

[mis-man-ij] / mɪsˈmæn ɪdʒ /


VERB
manage badly
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Deirdre said the reason people are going to food banks is "not because we mismanage money. It's not because we can't budget. It's because there isn't enough to budget."

From BBC • May 24, 2025

WildEarth Guardians in their complaint blame “a century of unsustainable water uses and mismanage of the Grande” for conditions that barely allow the minnow and other protected species to survive.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 30, 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

I didn't mismanage our health care system.I didn't invent the housing crisis.

From Salon • Jul. 3, 2020

There was no denying the fact that, mismanage his own private affairs as he might, this was a born leader of men.

From The Rocks of Valpre by Dell, Ethel M. (Ethel May)




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