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While I was writing Wild Swans I thought the famine was the result of economic mismanagement but during the research I realised that it was something more sinister.
Jung Chang

Meaning of "mismanagement" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MISMANAGEMENT

mismanagement  [ˌmɪsˈmænɪdʒmənt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MISMANAGEMENT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Mismanagement is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MISMANAGEMENT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of mismanagement in the English dictionary

The definition of mismanagement in the dictionary is the act or an instance of mismanaging something, or of something being mismanaged.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MISMANAGEMENT


acknowledgement
ækˈnɒlɪdʒmənt
acknowledgment
əkˈnɒlɪdʒmənt
arrangement
əˈreɪndʒmənt
co-management
kəʊˈmænɪdʒmənt
crisis-management
ˈkraɪsɪs ˈmænɪdʒmənt
discouragement
dɪsˈkʌrɪdʒmənt
disengagement
ˌdɪsɪnˈɡeɪdʒmənt
encouragement
ɪnˈkʌrɪdʒmənt
engagement
ɪnˈɡeɪdʒmənt
enlargement
ɪnˈlɑːdʒmənt
impingement
ɪmˈpɪndʒmənt
infringement
ɪnˈfrɪndʒmənt
judgement
ˈdʒʌdʒmənt
judgment
ˈdʒʌdʒmənt
management
ˈmænɪdʒmənt
micromanagement
ˈmaɪkrəʊˌmænɪdʒmənt
middle-management
ˈmɪdəl ˈmænɪdʒmənt
prejudgment
priːˈdʒʌdʒmənt
re-engagement
ˌriːɪnˈɡeɪdʒmənt
rearrangement
ˌriːəˈreɪndʒmənt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MISMANAGEMENT

mislive
mislocate
mislocation
mislodge
misluck
mismake
mismanage
mismanager
mismanners
mismark
mismarriage
mismarry
mismatch
mismatched
mismatchment
mismate
mismeasure
mismeasurement
mismetre
mismove

WORDS THAT END LIKE MISMANAGEMENT

abonnement
achievement
advertisement
agreement
amusement
announcement
apartment
basement
element
enforcement
implement
improvement
involvement
measurement
movement
placement
replacement
requirement
retirement
statement
supplement

Synonyms and antonyms of mismanagement in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «MISMANAGEMENT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «mismanagement» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of mismanagement

Translation of «mismanagement» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MISMANAGEMENT

Find out the translation of mismanagement to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of mismanagement from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «mismanagement» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

处置不当
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

mala administración
570 millions of speakers

English

mismanagement
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कुप्रबंधन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

سوء الإدارة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

бесхозяйственности
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

má administração
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অব্যবস্থা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

mauvaise gestion
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Salah urus
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Misswirtschaft
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

誤った対応
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

잘못 관리함
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Mismanagement
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự quản lý sai
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தவறான நிர்வாகமும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कुप्रसिद्ध
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kötü yönetim
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

cattiva gestione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

niegospodarności
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

безгосподарності
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

management defectuos
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κακοδιαχείρισης
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

wanbestuur
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

misshushållning
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

vanstyre
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of mismanagement

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MISMANAGEMENT»

The term «mismanagement» is quite widely used and occupies the 44.637 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MISMANAGEMENT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «mismanagement» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «mismanagement» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about mismanagement

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10 QUOTES WITH «MISMANAGEMENT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word mismanagement.
1
Rudolf Arnheim
Today we no longer regard the universe as the cause of our own undeserved troubles but perhaps, on the contrary, as the last refuge from the mismanagement of our earthly affairs.
2
Jung Chang
While I was writing Wild Swans I thought the famine was the result of economic mismanagement but during the research I realised that it was something more sinister.
3
Chris Chocola
Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy.
4
Clayton Christensen
Finding a 'sacrificial lamb' on whom to tag blame for complicated problems is an important instrument in the toolkit of politicians, because it deflects blame for the nation's economic woes away from their own regulatory lapses, economic mismanagement and coddling to labor unions.
5
Mark Dayton
The Bush Administration claims there is a Social Security crisis only to distract Americans from its serious mismanagement of the federal budget.
6
Marc Faber
The entire political elite has mismanaged the Indian economy for the last 50 years. You cannot solve a crisis that is borne as a symptom of mismanagement in just five minutes or in a week. It will involve significant sacrifices and pain, and I doubt that in India there is the political will to face the music.
7
Milton Friedman
The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
8
Richard Le Gallienne
If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame their own mismanagement, for the world is with them as it has never been before, and all sensible fathers and mothers know it.
9
Jim Gibbons
To pay out millions upon millions of dollars in bonuses for incomplete work, poor performance, and unacceptable products is the height of government waste and mismanagement.
10
Pauline Hanson
In this financial year we will be spending at least $1.5 billion on foreign aid and we cannot be sure that this money will be properly spent, as corruption and mismanagement in many of the recipient countries are legend.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MISMANAGEMENT»

Discover the use of mismanagement in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to mismanagement and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Mismanagement of Talent: Employability and Jobs in the ...
The authors lift the veneer off 'employability' to expose serious problems in the way that future workers are trying to manage their employability, how companies understand their human resource strategies and government failure to come to ...
Phillip Brown, Anthony Hesketh, 2004
2
Crisis in Command: Mismanagement in the Army
Two former soldiers provide documented evidence that the military forces of the United States are ill-prepared for war, having been weakened by officer-corps members who have abandoned honor and integrity to further their individual careers
Richard A. Gabriel, 1979
3
Broken Trust: Greed, Mismanagement, And Political ...
Entitled "Broken Trust," the statement provided devastating details of rigged appointments, violated trusts, cynical manipulation of the trust's beneficiaries, and the shameful involvement of many of Hawai'i's powerful.
Samuel P. King, Randall W. Roth, 2006
4
Mismanagement of Marine Fisheries
Longhurst examines the proposition, central to fisheries science, that a fishery creates its own natural resource by the compensatory growth it induces in the fish, and that this is sustainable.
Alan Longhurst, 2010
5
Transparency and Public Accountability Fiscal Mismanagement ...
This Book appallingly unravels insights into fiscal mismanagement devoid of public accountability, under the purview of IMF, World Bank, ADB, international developmental agencies, et al.
Nihal Sri Ameresekere, 2011
6
Investment Management and Mismanagement: History, Findings, ...
VIII. INVESTMENT. COSTS. AND. THE. MISMANAGEMENT. ISSUE. 8.1 Introduction Investment costs are important because they reduce the benefits that an investor would otherwise receive. As has been seen in the prior two chapters, there ...
Seth Anderson, 2006
7
Continued investigation into fraud and mismanagement in ...
CONTINUED INVESTIGATION INTO FRAUD AND MISMANAGEMENT IN THE GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1979 U.S. Senate, Subcommittee on Federal Spending Practices and Open Government, ...
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Federal Spending Practices and Open Government, 1981
8
AID's Mismanagement of the Excess Property Program: ...
Considers alleged improprieties in the AID program for giving excess military property to foreign countries under the economic assistance program.
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Foreign Aid Expenditures, 1967
9
Railroad Mismanagement: The Dangers of Exposing It, and the ...
The Dangers of Exposing It, and the Difficulty in Correcting it : Illustrated by a Reference to Recent Events in the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad Co., with Sundry Legal Opinions and Editorial Comments Upon the Evils Thus ...
George Dwight Phelps, 1859
10
Waterford and Limerick Railway Company. History of the ...
holders Commitee was formed in Dublin, and I think I wrote to that effect to some of the Shareholders; but when I see such glaring acts of imbecility and fatal mismanagement—when I see something like an arrangement between the Directors ...
John Levy, 1856

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MISMANAGEMENT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term mismanagement is used in the context of the following news items.
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IPL has been ruined by BBCI's mismanagement: Vinod Rai
IPL is a great property but it's been ruined by mismanagement by the BCCI. But IPL has also helped Indian cricket...... The structure of IPL is an ... «Economic Times, Jul 15»
2
Mashatile condemns mismanagement of pension funds
Mashatile today told curators of pension and provident funds as well as trustees at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange that workers money ... «Eyewitness News, Jul 15»
3
Whistleblower leaks audit exposing serious mismanagement and …
A leaked audit has exposed serious mismanagement at a Merton Council garage which last year overspent its budget by more than half a ... «Wimbledon Guardian, Jul 15»
4
Woes from Tory mismanagement
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper during a joint news conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on May 8, 2015. (Canadian Press files). «Windsor Star, Jul 15»
5
Running of Israeli PM Netanyahu's households draws criminal inquiry
Israel's Attorney-General on Monday ordered a criminal investigation into suspected mismanagement in the running of the residences of Prime ... «Channel News Asia, Jul 15»
6
Grand jury to begin probe of mismanagement allegations against …
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A grand jury will begin investigating allegations of wrongdoing against the Tulsa County sheriff's office, which came under ... «Newser, Jul 15»
7
Pan Am soccer stadium lawsuit claims defective steel …
... because of mismanagement of its work "along with other sub-trades," the defendants were "scrambling to get the project back on schedule.". «CBC.ca, Jul 15»
8
Rural development programmes delayed by mismanagement
Government's rural development programmes in Limpopo are said to be delayed by financial mismanagement, corruption and ... «The New Age Online, Jul 15»
9
Audit finds mismanagement, ethical breaches in LA Unified food …
The Los Angeles school district's massive food services program is riddled with mismanagement, inappropriate spending and ethical breaches, ... «Los Angeles Times, Jul 15»
10
Minnesota attorney general, Eden Prairie man settle financial …
A state lawsuit against an Eden Prairie man, accusing him of financial mismanagement and taking hundreds of thousands of dollars from a ... «Minneapolis Star Tribune, Jul 15»

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