mismanage

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That's eight more months that this company is able to "mismanage" hard-earned dollars from scrupulous families.

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  1. transitive verb To manage badly or carelessly.

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  • Well, you know how I am sure to mismanage: but you will hardly believe, even of me, that I never saw what was most worth seeing, the Hague Gallery! —  Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes
  • They don't seem to do anything but mismanage, spend money on really stupid things and then, instead of admitting that stupid is as stupid does to quote a character who had more integrity in his underwear than most of the people in Congress, they pass legislation giving away money we don't have to pay to people who already have shown that they can manage neither money or businesses. —  Capitol Hill Blue - The oldest political news site on the Internet
  • That's eight more months that this company is able to "mismanage" hard-earned dollars from scrupulous families. —  Daily Vanguard RSS
  • "And it's not just because we mismanage or mis-schedule." —  GamesIndustry.biz - News
  • By ignoring this collective activity we inevitably mismanage our planet. —  Virtual Canuck
 

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/mɪsˈmænədʒ/
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