mismanagement
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- n management that is careless or inefficient
he accomplished little due to the mismanagement of his energies
- Thereupon, the Germans accused the Polish of mismanagement, charged that the incident was indirectly due to the Versailles Treaty, "bewailed the fact that Germans had to entrust .
- The country's economy has struggled with years of mismanagement.
- In June, the Boston Globe ran a story on the firm's struggles, noting that city authorities had reassigned control of one of its housing complexes due to mismanagement.