MISMANAGEMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mismanagement mean? 

• MISMANAGEMENT (noun)
  The noun MISMANAGEMENT has 1 sense:

1. management that is careless or inefficient

  Familiarity information: MISMANAGEMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MISMANAGEMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Management that is careless or inefficient

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

misdirection; mismanagement

Context example:

he accomplished little due to the mismanagement of his energies

Hypernyms ("mismanagement" is a kind of...):

direction; management (the act of managing something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mismanagement"):

screwup (the complete mismanagement or mishandling of a situation)

Derivation:

mismanage (manage badly or incompetently)

 Context examples 

There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Here had been grievous mismanagement; but, bad as it was, he gradually grew to feel that it had not been the most direful mistake in his plan of education.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

She might scruple to make use of the words, but she must and did feel that her mother was a partial, ill-judging parent, a dawdle, a slattern, who neither taught nor restrained her children, whose house was the scene of mismanagement and discomfort from beginning to end, and who had no talent, no conversation, no affection towards herself; no curiosity to know her better, no desire of her friendship, and no inclination for her company that could lessen her sense of such feelings.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)