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What does mismanage mean?

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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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I cannot understand how the Conservatives can mismanage such an obvious and crucial file such as this one.
How can the minister be so callous and mismanage her department in a way that affects so many people's lives?
This was also partly meant to convince the colonialists that the Africans were ready to manage or mismanage their own affairs.
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.
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.
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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