mismanagement

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ management

Noun

mismanagement (usually uncountable, plural mismanagements)

1. The process or practice of managing ineptly, incompetently, or dishonestly.

   The value of the firm's stock fell precipitously when word leaked out that officers of the company were under investigation for gross mismanagement.

   • 1831, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Romance and Reality, volume 3, page 103:

     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.

   • 1941 December, Kenneth Brown, “The Newmarket & Chesterford Railway—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 533:

     [...] 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.

Translations

the process or practice of managing ineptly, incompetently, or dishonestly

• Irish: míbhainistíocht f, drochbhainistiú m
• Japanese: 失態 (ja) (shittai)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vanstyre n

  Nynorsk: vanstyre n

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• Russian: бесхозя́йственность (ru) f (besxozjájstvennostʹ)