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mismanages

mismanages is the third-person singular simple present indicative of mismanage.

Meaning of mismanage

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.

Questions about mismanages

What is mismanages the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Mismanages is the third-person singular simple present indicative of mismanage.

Words near mismanages in the dictionary

  1. mismanaged
  2. mismanagement
  3. mismanagements
  4. mismanager
  5. mismanagers
  6. mismanages
  7. mismanaging
  8. mismanagings
  9. mismaneuver
  10. mismaneuvered
  11. mismaneuvering

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mismanages (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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