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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

I didn’t understand how people with enough money could so easily mismanage it or make monumentally bad financial decisions.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 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

And I am not going to stand by silently while you mismanage these sacred funds the way you have chosen to do in recent months.

From The Great Gray Plague by Raymond F. Jones

Reporting from The New York Times has highlighted the way that the jail complex mismanages the stationing of its nearly 8,000 uniformed staff members, with some rarely interacting with detainees at all.

From New York Times ● May 9, 2022

Wired’s investigation is a deep dive that demonstrates how your data can be at risk if a massive company mismanages internal access to it or carelessly leaves it open to outsiders.

From The Verge ● Nov. 19, 2021

"It’s not uncommon that a conservator mismanages money and profits off of that," Kaplan said.

From Fox News ● Oct. 1, 2021

I have been very happy sometimes during the past year; and whatever the blind Fate that mismanages the world may elect to demand in payment, I shall not haggle.

From The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking by James Branch Cabell

I am afraid she mismanages her affairs sadly.

From Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

For most of the 20th century, the federal government managed, and frequently mismanaged, the energy resources on tribal trust lands.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Users said ADI Predictstreet mismanaged the contest, unexpectedly shifting the dates of snapshots and altering the rules, then failing to deliver tickets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

"Even though I mismanaged orders terribly I was steering my own business wheel," she said.

From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2025

Reached by telephone, Marino declined to comment on the letter or the mismanaged director’s search.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2025

You’re still not facing up to how badly you have mismanaged your business.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Former workers said development of the game was chaotic and accused its boss, Leslie Benzies, of mismanaging the studio.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

The group were were being punished for "mismanaging" the battery exchanges for Spiro motorbikes, which they denied.

From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026

Western Nexperia officials also contended in Dutch court that Wingtech’s Zhang was mismanaging the company and had conflicts of interest.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2025

Local representatives for years have blasted the Fish and Wildlife Department for mismanaging black bears and demanded the agency mitigate what they describe as a public safety threat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2025

For weeks before Garfield's death, medical journals and general newspapers had accused Bliss of mismanaging his care.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow




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