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MISMANAGE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they mismanage ... he / she / it mismanages
Past simple: mismanaged
Past participle: mismanaged
-ing form: mismanaging
Sense 1
Meaning:
Manage badly or incompetently
Example:
The funds were mismanaged
Synonyms:
misconduct; mishandle; mismanage
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "mismanage" is one way to...):
care; deal; handle; manage (be in charge of, act on, or dispose of)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
mismanagement (management that is careless or inefficient)
