mismanned
English
Etymology
mis- + man + -ed
Adjective
mismanned (comparative more mismanned, superlative most mismanned)
- Having inappropriate personnel; improperly manned.
- 1912, The Independent - Volume 72, page 944:
- Death steers the mismanned boat!
- 1975, The American Editor - Issues 586-628, page 18:
- Yes and no, but . . . say the shell-shocked educators whose overstocked, mismanned schools are spewing out more graduates, ready or not, than ever before.
- 2000, Wilder Perkins, Hoare and the Headless Captains, page 117:
- Do you mean to say that by ordering this poor mismanned barky to sea the Admiralty deliberately put her reputation at risk?
- 2007, Harry Thie, Roland J. Yardley, Margaret C. Harrell, Alignment of Department of Defense Manpower, Resources, and Personnel Systems, page xi:
- This research was initiated to explore the assumption within the personnel community that disconnects, or misalignments, among these three systems are responsible for organizations being mismanned or undermanned.