mismanaged
mismanaged is the simple past and past participle of mismanage.
Meaning of mismanage
Verb
mismanage (third-person singular simple present mismanages, present participle mismanaging, simple past and past participle mismanaged)
- To manage an area of responsibility in a way which is inept, incompetent, or dishonest.
- She mismanaged my finances and left me bankrupt.
- 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.
Questions about mismanaged
- What is mismanaged the simple past and past participle of?
- Mismanaged is the simple past and past participle of mismanage.
Words near mismanaged in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: mismanaged (page history and authors); mismanage (page history and authors). 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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