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What does mismanage mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word mismanage? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To manage an area of responsibility in a way which is inept, incompetent, or dishonest.
  2. (intransitive) To behave, in a management capacity, in a manner which is inept, incompetent, or dishonest.
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Instead of providing assistance to Canadians who need help, that heartless government continues to mismanage this file as well.
Take it, and you provide Jamie and yourself with a home, he has his freedom, and you can manage or mismanage him as you list.
How can the minister be so callous and mismanage her department in a way that affects so many people's lives?
It is as if Italian politicians have understood that, however much they mismanage the state, the central bank must be allowed to do its job.
Two of his four vice-presidents are ex-rebels, and most armed factions have been given a ministry to mismanage.
If you can't manage a thousand-dollar credit card, they are not going to let you mismanage a loan on a house.

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