mismatch
mis mach
- n a bad or unsuitable match
- v match badly; match two objects or people that do not go together
- THIS REGIONAL FINAL OF THE NCAA men's basketball tournament looked like a classic mismatch.
- More recent studies, says Christina Maslach, a pioneer in burnout research at the University of California, Berkeley, show that unfairness and a mismatch in values between .
- The mismatch between Cox and the world he was meant to police became such an embarrassment to the Republican Party that GOP candidate John McCain publicly called for the firing of .