0 past simple and past participle of mismanage
1 to organize or control something badly:
The restaurant was hopelessly mismanaged by a former rock musician with no business experience.
The process of globalisation has until now been either unmanaged or mismanaged.
This is entirely due to the manner in which the industry is being mismanaged.
We have, say, got an estate so mismanaged that the theory is that the tenants on the estate cannot reasonably cultivate their farms.
Many of the speeches have dwelt on how the industry has been mismanaged for a long time.
He then went on to point out, with gross inconsistency, how the bureaucracy had mismanaged things.
No wonder they completely mismanaged the public finances.
He thought that it had been mismanaged, and he described it in no unmeasured terms as a disaster.
Diseases which had been hopelessly mismanaged by the medical profession were cured.