Mismanagement

Definitions

The process or practice of managing ineptly, incompetently, or dishonestly.

uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“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, to Hidalgos, who were preux chevaliers in loyalty to their king.”

“[...] 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.”

“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⟳.”

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