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mismanage

verb
/mɪsˈmæ.nədʒ/

Etymology

From mis- + manage.

  1. derived from manus — “hand”
  2. derived from *manizāre✻ — “handle”
  3. derived from maneggiare
  4. derived from manege
  5. inherited from *manage✻
  6. inherited from manage
  7. prefixed as mismanage — “mis + manage”

Definitions

  1. To manage an area of responsibility in a way which is inept, incompetent, or dishonest.

    • She mismanaged my finances and left me bankrupt.

  2. To behave, in a management capacity, in a manner which is inept, incompetent, or…

    To behave, in a management capacity, in a manner which is inept, incompetent, or dishonest.

    • The fundamental reason why the company failed is that the CEO and other top managers simply mismanaged.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at mismanage. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01mismanage02inept03unfit04physical05nature06careful07grief08misconduct

A definitional loop anchored at mismanage. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at mismanage

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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