mismanned

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ man +‎ -ed

Adjective

mismanned (comparative more mismanned, superlative most mismanned)

1. Having inappropriate personnel; improperly manned.
   • 1912, The Independent - Volume 72, page 944:

     Death steers the mismanned boat!

   • 1975, The American Editor - Issues 586-628, page 18:

     Yes and no, but . . . say the shell-shocked educators whose overstocked, mismanned schools are spewing out more graduates, ready or not, than ever before.

   • 2000, Wilder Perkins, Hoare and the Headless Captains, page 117:

     Do you mean to say that by ordering this poor mismanned barky to sea the Admiralty deliberately put her reputation at risk?

   • 2007, Harry Thie, Roland J. Yardley, Margaret C. Harrell, Alignment of Department of Defense Manpower, Resources, and Personnel Systems, page xi:

     This research was initiated to explore the assumption within the personnel community that disconnects, or misalignments, among these three systems are responsible for organizations being mismanned or undermanned.