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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

If humans mismanage the land by recklessly razing forests or by farming in unsustainable ways, emissions that warm the planet can increase.

From Washington Post • Aug. 14, 2022

“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

In the same way we may manage or mismanage our brains.

From Industrial Progress and Human Economics by Hartness, James




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