Mismanagement Meaning
/ˌmɪsˈmænɪd͡ʒmənt/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe process or practice of managing ineptly, incompetently, or dishonestly.
Sentence Examples
It was mismanagement of the company's affairs by the acting director.
In Algeria, economic mismanagement led to rising prices.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The company's financial ____ led to huge severe losses and eventual bankruptcy.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The large company eventually went bankrupt due to a long period of poor ____ and several very bad financial decisions by the board.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey-? Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der. Proto-Germanic *missaz Proto-Germanic *missa- Proto-West Germanic *missa- Old English mis- Middle English mys- English mis- English management English mismanagement From mis- + management.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"But, alas! for the mismanagement of fate—he was quite out of his place in the Cortez of Spain: he dilated on religious toleration to those in whose ears it sounded like blasphemy—on the blessing of knowledge, to those with whom intellect and anarchy were synonymous—and on the rights of the people, to Hidalgos, who were preux chevaliers in loyalty to their king."
— 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter V, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 103:
"[...] it also charged the Newmarket Railway £600 a year for the management or rather—as the Chairman of the Newmarket Railway did not scruple to call it—the mismanagement of the line."
— 1941 December, Kenneth Brown, “The Newmarket & Chesterford Railway—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 533:
"After decades of the type of mismanagement that proliferated across all the nationalised industries, the government was already aware that British Railways was in deep trouble."
— 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 50:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The company's financial ____ led to huge severe losses and eventual bankruptcy.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The large company eventually went bankrupt due to a long period of poor ____ and several very bad financial decisions by the board.