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misadminister

misadminister verb: to administer wrongly or badly.

Verb

misadminister (third-person singular simple present misadministers, present participle misadministering, simple past and past participle misadministered)

  1. To administer wrongly or badly.
    • Congress, investing Washington with the same extraordinary powers they had given him after the affair at Trenton, quietly slipped away to York, where they continued to misadminister their affairs.1912, Edwin Markham, The Real America in Romance: An Authentic History of America from the Discovery to the Present Day
    • If you do not know how to score an item, then the student will not know when certain criteria are reached and will misadminister the test.2001, Steven Walfish, Allen K. Hess, Succeeding in Graduate School: The Career Guide for Psychology Students, →ISBN

Forms of misadminister

third-person singular presentmisadministers
present participlemisadministering
past participlemisadministered
pastmisadministered

Origin of misadminister

From mis- + administer.

Questions about misadminister

What does misadminister mean?
Misadminister means to administer wrongly or badly.
What part of speech is misadminister?
Misadminister is a verb.
What is the past tense of misadminister?
The past tense of misadminister is misadministered.

Words near misadminister in the dictionary

  1. misadjusted
  2. misadjusting
  3. misadjustment
  4. misadjustments
  5. misadjusts
  6. misadminister
  7. misadministered
  8. misadministering
  9. misadministers
  10. misadministration
  11. misadorn

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