0 present participle of mismanage --
1 to organize or control something badly: --
The restaurant was hopelessly mismanaged by a former rock musician with no business experience.
She felt at the time that incumbent city officials were mismanaging city funds.
They were subsequently accused of mismanaging the funds.
Conservative anarchists were responsible for mismanaging this country in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and some people today think that their ideas will still meet twentieth century needs.
Giving control of education to those councils which are already mishandling and mismanaging housing and social services is an absurd triumph of myopic dogmatism over the consumers' interests.
It is always possible, by mismanaging a crisis of this kind, to make it even worse.
It applied in the wrong areas, thereby mismanaging the whole business.
They have put us all in danger by mismanaging a vital resource.
That is no wonder, because they are utterly mismanaging the economy.