单词 | mismanage |
释义 | † mismanagen. Obsolete. rare. An instance of mismanagement. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [noun] > unskilful management misgovernancea1449 misexecution1535 misconveying1540 misgovernment1600 misdemeanour1641 misdirecting1647 mismanagement1659 malmanagement1675 mal-execution1689 misconduct1705 mismanage1705 mal-organization1841 1705 R. Beverley Hist. Virginia i. iii. 20 That this Disappointment..proceeded from a Mismanage of Government. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2021). mismanagev. transitive and intransitive. To manage badly or wrongly; to bungle. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > do something unskilfully [verb (intransitive)] > manage something unskilfully mismanage1692 to make a botch of1855 the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > be unskilled in [verb (transitive)] > manage unskilfully misleadc1225 misrulea1393 misgovernc1400 miscook?1507 mishandle1530 maladminister1649 mismanage1692 misconduct1755 1692 [implied in: J. Locke Some Considerations Lowering Interest 114 This rarely happens but in the mal-administration of neglected or mis-manag'd Government. (at mismanaged adj.)]. 1698 J. Collier Short View Immorality Eng. Stage iii. 138 The Clergy mismanage sometimes, and they must be told of their Faults. 1700 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding (new ed.) iv. xvii. 410 The Business of Assemblies would be in danger to be mismanaged. 1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 129 Reflections that might..be cast on him for mismanaging her Cure. 1841 R. W. Emerson Ess. 1st Ser. (Boston ed.) iii. 83 Things refuse to be mismanaged long. 1865 A. Trollope Can you forgive Her? II. xxxiv. 269 Over and over again she had told herself that she had so mismanaged the latter years of her life that it was impossible for her not to hate herself. 1885 Manch. Examiner 21 Feb. 5/3 In some respects our foreign policy has been mismanaged. 1940 J. Buchan Memory Hold-the-Door iii. 71 The wound was badly mismanaged, and..his leg had to be amputated below the knee. 1988 H. C. R. Landon Mozart's Last Year xiii. 182 She mismanaged the household finances and encouraged him to live a scatter-brained..life. 1997 Dallas Morning News (Nexis) 27 Nov. 15 b You can mismanage as badly by underestimating the cap as you can by overestimating. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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