mismanagement
/ˌmɪsˈmænəd͡ʒmənt//ˌmɪsˈmænɪd͡ʒmənt/
mismanagement noun: the process or practice of managing ineptly, incompetently, or dishonestly.
Noun
mismanagement (usually uncountable, plural mismanagements)
- 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.
- 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...1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter V, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 103
mismanagement meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
mismanagement in Hindi
- कुप्रबंधन, कु-प्रबंधन
mismanagement in Tamil
- தவறாக வழி நடத்துதல், தவறான மேலாண்மை, திறமையற்ற செயலாண்மை
mismanagement in Marathi
- गैरव्यवस्थापना, गैरव्यवस्थापन
mismanagement in Urdu
- بدانتظامی, گڑبڑ
More languagesFewer languages
- mismanagement in Bengali
- অব্যবস্থাপনা, অব্যবস্থাপনার
- mismanagement in Malayalam
- പിടിപ്പുകേട് piṭippukēṭŭ
- mismanagement in Punjabi
- ਗਲਤ ਪ੍ਰਬੰਧਨ
- mismanagement in Gujarati
- ગેરવહીવટ
- mismanagement in Odia
- ବିଭ୍ରାଟ bibhrāṭa
- mismanagement in Nepali
- कुप्रबंधन, कुप्रबन्धन
Examples of mismanagement in a sentence
- [...] 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.1941 December, Kenneth Brown, “The Newmarket & Chesterford Railway—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 533:
- After decades of the type of mismanagement that proliferated across all the nationalised industries, the government was already aware that British Railways was in deep trouble.2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 50:
- Donald Trump’s former top food safety official has accused the administration of a near “catastrophic” mismanagement of the cyclospora outbreak that has sickened thousands of people in the US.2026 July 25, Oliver Milman, “Former FDA official says US handling of cyclospora near ‘catastrophic level’”, in The Guardian, archived from...
Forms of mismanagement
| plural | mismanagements |
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Origin of mismanagement
From mis- + management.
Questions about mismanagement
- What does mismanagement mean?
- Mismanagement means the process or practice of managing ineptly, incompetently, or dishonestly.
- What is mismanagement in Hindi?
- Mismanagement in Hindi is कुप्रबंधन, कु-प्रबंधन. See Mismanagement meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use mismanagement in a sentence?
- [...] 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.
- What part of speech is mismanagement?
- Mismanagement is a noun.
- How do you pronounce mismanagement?
- Mismanagement is pronounced /ˌmɪsˈmænɪd͡ʒmənt/ (US).
- What is the plural of mismanagement?
- The plural of mismanagement is mismanagements.
Words near mismanagement in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: mismanagement (page history and authors); mismanagement (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mismanagement (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mismanagement (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mismanagement (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mismanagement (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); പിടിപ്പുകേട് (Malayalam) (page history and authors); mismanagement (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mismanagement (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ବିଭ୍ରାଟ (Odia) (page history and authors); mismanagement (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model 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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