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mismanagement

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Mismanagement (noun) means the way of running something badly, without skill or honesty.

noun

The way of running something badly, without skill or honesty.

"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." — Howard Johnston, Was Marples the real railway wrecker? (2023)

"The value of the firm's stock fell precipitously when word leaked out that officers of the company were under investigation for gross mismanagement."

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