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mismanage

/mɪsˈmæ.nədʒ/

mismanage verb: to manage an area of responsibility in a way which is inept, incompetent, or dishonest.

Verb

mismanage (third-person singular simple present mismanages, present participle mismanaging, simple past and past participle mismanaged)

  1. (transitive) To manage an area of responsibility in a way which is inept, incompetent, or dishonest.
    • She mismanaged my finances and left me bankrupt.
  2. (intransitive) To behave, in a management capacity, in a manner which is inept, incompetent, or dishonest.
    • The fundamental reason why the company failed is that the CEO and other top managers simply mismanaged.

mismanage meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

mismanage in Tamil

தவறாக நடத்து, திறமையற்று நடத்து, சொதப்பு

mismanage in Urdu

بدانتظامی کرنا, بگاڑنا

mismanage in Bengali

কোনো দায়িত্ব অদক্ষভাবে, অযোগ্যভাবে, অসততার সাথে পরিচালনা করা, ব্যবস্থাপনার ক্ষেত্রে অদক্ষ, অযোগ্য, অসৎভাবে আচরণ করা

mismanage in Malayalam

mishandle, bungle, fluff
കെടുകാര്യം ചെയ്യുക, അസമർത്ഥമായി കെൊര്യം ചെയ്യുക, തെറ്റായി കെെകാര്യം ചെയ്യുക, ദുർഭരണം നടത്തുക, ക്രമരഹിതമായി പ്രവർത്തിക്കുക, അബദ്ധം കാട്ടുക

Forms of mismanage

third-person singular presentmismanages
present participlemismanaging
past participlemismanaged
pastmismanaged

Origin of mismanage

From mis- + manage.

Words formed from mismanage

Questions about mismanage

What does mismanage mean?
Mismanage means to manage an area of responsibility in a way which is inept, incompetent, or dishonest.
What is mismanage in Tamil?
Mismanage in Tamil is தவறாக நடத்து, திறமையற்று நடத்து, சொதப்பு. See Mismanage meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is mismanage?
Mismanage is a verb.
How do you pronounce mismanage?
Mismanage is pronounced /mɪsˈmæ.nədʒ/.
What is the past tense of mismanage?
The past tense of mismanage is mismanaged.

Words near mismanage in the dictionary

  1. mismaintaining
  2. mismaintains
  3. mismake
  4. mismakes
  5. mismaking
  6. mismanage
  7. mismanageable
  8. mismanaged
  9. mismanagement
  10. mismanagements
  11. mismanager

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: mismanage (page history and authors); mismanage (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mismanage (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mismanage (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mismanage (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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