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misplan

misplan verb: to plan badly or incorrectly.

Verb

misplan (third-person singular simple present misplans, present participle misplanning, simple past and past participle misplanned)

  1. (transitive) To plan badly or incorrectly.
    • It is possible to misplan and misplan badly.1983, Oskar Gruenwald, The Yugoslav Search for Man, page 142
    • The current economic meltdown had caused the company to misplan, and the company knew it would be in violation of its credit agreement during the first quarter.2010, Harlan D. Platt, Lead with Cash: Cash Flow for Corporate Renewal, page 211

Noun

misplan (plural misplans)

  1. (rare) A poorly made or inappropriate plan.
    • On the short end, failure is a poor choice: on the long end, the failure is in planning, a misplan.1995, Ed Dougherty, “'Violation'—does HRA need the concept?”, in Reliability Engineering & System Safety, volume 47, number 2
    • Unfortunately, due to some odd mistake, misfortune, misplan or whatever, their weapons had been placed on separate shipping and ended up somewhere else in Vietnam.2002, Kenneth P. Sympson, Images from the Otherland, page 46

Examples of misplan in a sentence

  • The busy person is likely to commit an even bigger planning error; after all, he is likely still needing to attend to his last project and is more distracted and overwhelmed—a surefire way to misplan.2013, Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir, Scarcity: Why having too little means so much:
  • Misjudgements are sub-divided into misplans and poor choices.2008, Thomas Hoff, Cato Alexander Bjørkli, Embodied Minds--technical Environments, page 37:

Forms of misplan

Verb
third-person singular presentmisplans
present participlemisplanning
past participlemisplanned
pastmisplanned
Noun
pluralmisplans

Origin of misplan

From mis- + plan.

Questions about misplan

What does misplan mean?
Misplan means to plan badly or incorrectly.
How do you use misplan in a sentence?
The busy person is likely to commit an even bigger planning error; after all, he is likely still needing to attend to his last project and is more distracted and overwhelmed—a surefire way to misplan.
What part of speech is misplan?
Misplan can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of misplan?
The past tense of misplan is misplanned.

Words near misplan in the dictionary

  1. misplacers
  2. misplaces
  3. misplaceth
  4. misplacing
  5. misplacings
  6. misplan
  7. misplanned
  8. misplanning
  9. misplans
  10. misplant
  11. misplanted

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