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mismanage

 verb
     
mis‧man‧age [transitive]
if someone mismanages something they are in charge of, they deal with or manage it badly:
The nation's finances had been badly mismanaged.
—mismanagement noun [uncountable]
the government's mismanagement of the crisis
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