单词 | mismanagement |
释义 | mismanagementn. Bad or improper management or administration. ΘΚΠ society > authority > control > [noun] > management or administration > improper or corrupt corruptionc1425 misusage1532 malversationc1550 maladministration1639 mismanagement1659 malconduct1684 the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [noun] > unskilful management misgovernancea1449 misexecution1535 misconveying1540 misgovernment1600 misdemeanour1641 misdirecting1647 mismanagement1659 malmanagement1675 mal-execution1689 misconduct1705 mismanage1705 mal-organization1841 1659 C. Noble Moderate Answer 10 This mismanagement or miscarriage of one Expedition, blasts and effaces the victorious and prosperous successes of many other. 1690 J. Locke Two Treat. Govt. ii. xix. §225 Such Revolutions happen not upon every little Mismanagement in publick Affairs. 1715 A. Pope Temple of Fame 39 Old Mismanagements, Taxations new. 1772 G. G. Beekman Let. 24 Oct. in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) II. 976 I flatter myself you'll not let me be a Sufferer by the mismanagement of those under you. 1845 E. Holmes Life Mozart 82 The mismanagement ‘of the blessed theatrical people, who,..delay every thing to the last’. 1878 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Eng. 18th Cent. I. iii. 423 In the English service mismanagement and languor were general. 1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage lxxxi. 422 She'll probably write a letter to the papers on the gross mismanagement of the London hospitals. 1999 Times 15 July 16/2 The Severn is in crisis after 40 years of neglect and mismanagement by the Environment Agency. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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