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misˈmanager
[mis-1 5.]
A bad manager.
1683in W. Maitland Hist. Edin. (1753) i. vi. 104 Mismanadgers and Imbezlers of the Common Good. 1711Steele Spect. No. 258 ⁋3, I would fain ask any of the present Mismanagers, Why should not Rope-dancers [etc.]..appear again on our Stage? 1780Burke Œcon. Reform Wks. III. 247 A long and unbroken pedigree of mismanagers. 1862Public Opin. 26 July ‘Contents’, The Mismanagement and Mismanagers in the War Department. 1877Ruskin Fors Clav. VII. 229 He would find..that the mismanagement could be ‘arrested’, instead of the mismanager. |