Word Meanings - MISMANAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To manage ill or improperly; as, to mismanage public affairs.

Related words: (words related to MISMANAGE)

• PUBLIC-SPIRITED
  1. Having, or exercising, a disposition to advance the interest of the community or public; as, public-spirited men. 2. Dictated by a regard to public good; as, a public-spirited project or measure. Addison. -- Pub"lic-spir`it*ed*ly,
• PUBLICLY
  1. With exposure to popular view or notice; without concealment; openly; as, property publicly offered for sale; an opinion publicly avowed; a declaration publicly made. 2. In the name of the community. Addison.
• PUBLIC SCHOOL
  In Great Britain, any of various schools maintained by the community, wholly or partly under public control, or maintained largely by endowment and not carried on chiefly for profit; specif., and commonly, any of various select and usually
• MISMANAGER
  One who manages ill.
• IMPROPERLY
  In an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly.
• PUBLIC-SERVICE CORPORATION; QUASI-PUBLIC CORPORATION
  A corporation, such as a railroad company, lighting company, water company, etc., organized or chartered to follow a public calling or to render services more or less essential to the general public convenience or safety.
• PUBLICNESS
  1. The quality or state of being public, or open to the view or notice of people at large; publicity; notoriety; as, the publicness of a sale. 2. The quality or state of belonging to the community; as, the publicness of property. Boyle.
• PUBLICAN
  A farmer of the taxes and public revenues; hence, a collector of toll or tribute. The inferior officers of this class were often oppressive in their exactions, and were regarded with great detestation. As Jesus at meat . . . many publicans
• PUBLICATION
  1. The act of publishing or making known; notification to the people at large, either by words, writing, or printing; proclamation; divulgation; promulgation; as, the publication of the law at Mount Sinai; the publication of the gospel;
• MANAGEABLE
  Such as can be managed or used; suffering control; governable; tractable; subservient; as, a manageable horse. Syn. -- Governable; tractable; controllable; docile. -- Man"age*a*ble*ness, n. -- Man"age*a*bly, adv.
• PUBLICITY
  The quality or state of being public, or open to the knowledge of a community; notoriety; publicness.
• MANAGERY
  1. Management; manner of using; conduct; direction. 2. Husbandry; economy; frugality. Bp. Burnet.
• MISMANAGEMENT
  Wrong or bad management; as, he failed through mismagement.
• PUBLIC-MINDED
  Public-spirited. -- Pub"lic-mind`ed*ness, n.
• PUBLIC
  1. Of or pertaining to the people; belonging to the people; relating to, or affecting, a nation, state, or community; -- opposed to private; as, the public treasury. To the public good Private respects must yield. Milton. He touched the dead
• MANAGELESS
  Unmanageable.
• PUBLIC-HEARTED
  Public-spirited.
• MANAGERIAL
  Of or pertaining to management or a manager; as, managerial qualities. "Managerial responsibility." C. Bronté.
• MANAGEABILITY
  The state or quality of being manageable; manageableness.
• PUBLICITY PAMPHLET
  A pamphlet which, in some States of the United States having the initiative or referendum, is mailed to the voters to inform them as to the nature of a measure submitted by the initiative or referendum. The pamphlet contains a copy of the proposed
• LOADMANAGE; LODEMANAGE
  Pilotage; skill of a pilot or loadsman. Chaucer.
• SELF-AFFAIRS
  One's own affairs; one's private business. Shak.
• REPUBLICANIZE
  To change, as a state, into a republic; to republican principles; as, France was republicanized; to republicanize the rising generation. D. Ramsay.