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misadminister

verb

Etymology

From mis- + administer.

  1. derived from administrare
  2. derived from aminister
  3. inherited from administren
  4. prefixed as misadminister — “mis + administer”

Definitions

  1. To administer wrongly or badly.

    • Congress, investing Washington with the same extraordinary powers they had given him after the affair at Trenton, quietly slipped away to York, where they continued to misadminister their affairs.
    • If you do not know how to score an item, then the student will not know when certain criteria are reached and will misadminister the test.
    • While the earth we have mistakenly taken to be our kingdom to overuse and misadminister as we please begins to show the wear and tear of that, he has given us a brilliantly preserved wingdom.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA