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Word entry · 13 letters

mismanagement

Best crossword clue

"Poor oversight"

13 letters · collected on this word page

13 lettersPronunciation /ˌmɪsˈmænɪd͡ʒmənt/Part of speech nounSorted aaeegimmmnnstStarts with MEnds with T1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. management that is careless or inefficient

Word origin

From mis- + management.

Used in a sentence

  • The value of the firm's stock fell precipitously when word leaked out that officers of the company were under investigation for gross mismanagement.
  • [...] it also charged the Newmarket Railway £600 a year for the management or rather—as the Chairman of the Newmarket Railway did not scruple to call it—the mismanagement of the line.
  • After decades of the type of mismanagement that proliferated across all the nationalised industries, the government was already aware that British Railways was in deep trouble.

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