Usually means: Manage or administer poorly, ineffectively.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word maladminister:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. maladminister: Merriam-Webster
  2. maladminister: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. maladminister: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. maladminister: Collins English Dictionary
  5. maladminister: Wordnik
  6. maladminister: Wiktionary
  7. maladminister: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. maladminister: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. maladminister: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. maladminister: Dictionary.com
  11. maladminister: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. maladminister: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. maladminister: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

(Note: See maladministered as well.)

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▸ verb:  To administer wrongly or badly.

Similar:
misadminister, mistreat, maladjust, misconduct, mismanage, misgovern, misordain, misrule, misdoctor, undermanage, more...

Opposite:
manage effectively, govern competently

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Similar:
misadminister, mistreat, maladjust, misconduct, mismanage, misgovern, misordain, misrule, misdoctor, undermanage, more...

Opposite:
manage effectively, govern competently



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