misplan

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ plan

Verb

misplan (third-person singular simple present misplans, present participle misplanning, simple past and past participle misplanned)

1. (transitive) To plan badly or incorrectly.
   • 1983, Oskar Gruenwald, The Yugoslav Search for Man, page 142:

     It is possible to misplan and misplan badly.

   • 2010, Harlan D. Platt, Lead with Cash: Cash Flow for Corporate Renewal, page 211:

     The current economic meltdown had caused the company to misplan, and the company knew it would be in violation of its credit agreement during the first quarter.

   • 2013, Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir, Scarcity: Why having too little means so much:

     The busy person is likely to commit an even bigger planning error; after all, he is likely still needing to attend to his last project and is more distracted and overwhelmed—a surefire way to misplan.

Translations

to plan badly or incorrectly

• Greek: κακοϋπολογίζω (kakoÿpologízo)

Noun

misplan (plural misplans)

1. (rare) A poorly made or inappropriate plan.
   • 1995, Ed Dougherty, “'Violation'—does HRA need the concept?”, in Reliability Engineering & System Safety, volume 47, number 2:

     On the short end, failure is a poor choice: on the long end, the failure is in planning, a misplan.

   • 2002, Kenneth P. Sympson, Images from the Otherland, page 46:

     Unfortunately, due to some odd mistake, misfortune, misplan or whatever, their weapons had been placed on separate shipping and ended up somewhere else in Vietnam.

   • 2008, Thomas Hoff, Cato Alexander Bjørkli, Embodied Minds--technical Environments, page 37:

     Misjudgements are sub-divided into misplans and poor choices.

Anagrams

• Lipmans, Spilman, planism, plasmin