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What does mismanage mean?

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  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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In addition, several countries have been able to mismanage their public finances under the protective umbrella of the euro.
How can the minister be so callous and mismanage her department in a way that affects so many people's lives?
If you mismanage credit as a student, it can impact your financial well-being after you graduate.
I cannot understand how the Conservatives can mismanage such an obvious and crucial file such as this one.
This was also partly meant to convince the colonialists that the Africans were ready to manage or mismanage their own affairs.
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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