How do you use Mismanage in a sentence? See 4 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like mishandle or misconduct, plus the exact meaning.
Mismanage meaning
- To manage an area of responsibility in a way which is inept, incompetent, or dishonest.
- To behave, in a management capacity, in a manner which is inept, incompetent, or dishonest.
Using Mismanage
- The main meaning on this page is: To manage an area of responsibility in a way which is inept, incompetent, or dishonest. | To behave, in a management capacity, in a manner which is inept, incompetent, or dishonest.
- Useful related words include: mishandle, misconduct, manage, deal.
- In the example corpus, mismanage often appears in combinations such as: to mismanage, mismanage the.
Context around Mismanage
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 3 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 4 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Mismanage
- In this selection, "mismanage" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, hopelessly and everything stand out and add context to how "mismanage" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include how to mismanage a company and seems to mismanage everything it. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "mismanage" sits close to words such as aab, aamer and aave, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with mismanage
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
They will mismanage this edifice. (5 words)
It has been reduced to an example of how to mismanage a company in the name of profit. (18 words)
Yet perhaps we should rejoice that the development of wind power is in private hands rather than those of Holyrood, which seems to mismanage everything it touches. (27 words)
This was especially the case as Eden's claims that the Egyptians would hopelessly mismanage the Canal had proven groundless, and that by September 1956 it was clear that the change of management had not affected shipping. (37 words)
Yet perhaps we should rejoice that the development of wind power is in private hands rather than those of Holyrood, which seems to mismanage everything it touches. (27 words)
It has been reduced to an example of how to mismanage a company in the name of profit. (18 words)
Example sentences (4)
Yet perhaps we should rejoice that the development of wind power is in private hands rather than those of Holyrood, which seems to mismanage everything it touches.
It has been reduced to an example of how to mismanage a company in the name of profit.
They will mismanage this edifice.
This was especially the case as Eden's claims that the Egyptians would hopelessly mismanage the Canal had proven groundless, and that by September 1956 it was clear that the change of management had not affected shipping.
Common combinations with mismanage
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to mismanage 3×
- mismanage the 2×