mismanaging
present participle ofmismanage
mismanage
verb[T]
uk/ˌmɪsˈmæn.ɪdʒ/us/ˌmɪsˈmæn.ɪdʒ/toorganizeorcontrolsomethingbadly:
Therestaurantwashopelesslymismanaged by aformerrockmusicianwith nobusinessexperience.
Synonyms
misconduct
mishandle
Managing and organizing
- admin
- administer
- administration
- anti-bureaucracy
- bronze command
- coordinated
- fixer
- get up
- getyouract togetheridiom
- gold command
- have/getyourshit togetheridiom
- marshal
- mobilize
- party planning
- project-manage
- rationalization
- recentralization
- remobilization
- scrum
- staging
Examplesofmismanaging
mismanaging
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
The noun mismanagement, for instance, can be paraphrased as 'the condition ofmismanaging' or as 'inept management'.
From theCambridge English Corpus
It is not possible to continuemismanagingfunds without it being noticed.
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It does not have a persistent financial problem; nor is there any evidence that it ismismanagingthe funds allocated to it.
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But we are dealing with sovereign independent nations, managing ormismanagingtheir own affairs.
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The price ofmismanagingthe nationalised industries is high.
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They aremismanagingthe industry, and are purely political in their outlook.
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It is not just a matter of high rates; it is a matter of local authoritiesmismanaginghousing.
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That is no wonder, because they are utterlymismanagingthe economy.
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They have put us all in danger bymismanaginga vital resource.
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It applied in the wrong areas, therebymismanagingthe whole business.
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It is always possible, bymismanaginga crisis of this kind, to make it even worse.
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Giving control of education to those councils which are already mishandling andmismanaginghousing and social services is an absurd triumph of myopic dogmatism over the consumers' interests.
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Conservative anarchists were responsible formismanagingthis country in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and some people today think that their ideas will still meet twentieth century needs.
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They were subsequently accused ofmismanagingthe funds.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.She felt at the time that incumbent city officials weremismanagingcity funds.
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- do a good/bad job
- do-a-good-bad-job
- do-a-good-turn
- do (all) the donkey work
- do-all-the-donkey-work
- do-a-mischief
- do a moonlight flit
- do-a-moonlight-flit
- do-an-injury
- do-a-number-on
- do a number on sb
- do-a-number-on-sb
- do a number on someone
- do-a-power-of-good
- do a roaring trade
- do-a-roaring-trade
- disturbing thought
- disturbing trend
- disturb the peace
- disturb-the-peace
- disulfide
- disulfide bond
- disunite
- disunited
- disuniting