MISMANAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mismanage mean? 

• MISMANAGE (verb)
  The verb MISMANAGE has 1 sense:

1. manage badly or incompetently

  Familiarity information: MISMANAGE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MISMANAGE (verb)

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

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

misconduct; mishandle; mismanage

Context example:

The funds were mismanaged

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)

 Context examples 

Although plastic waste per person is highest in high-income countries, most mismanaged waste tends to arise from low-to-middle-income countries, where waste management systems have not kept pace with growing populations and industrialisation.

(Microplastic pollution adds to oceans’ problems, scidev.net)