Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To administer or manage inefficiently or dishonestly.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To administer in a faulty, inefficient way, particularly public affairs.
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Examples
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The syndics and other ministers of state are to have no salary, but such emoluments, that they cannot maladminister affairs of state without great loss to themselves.
A Political Treatise 2007
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Oriental architecture, Moorish, large rooms, almost entirely occupied by the chancery officers, who administer, or maladminister, Jussupow's estates.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle Kuno Francke 1892
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"They waste money and they maladminister programs ... then when it all gets too hard they change the leader," he said.
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