mismanoeuver

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A form of mismaneuver — To maneuver in a way that has an unfortunate result.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

verbmismanoeuver (third-person singular simple present mismanoeuvers, present participle mismanoeuvering, simple past and past participle mismanoeuvered)

present singular third person mismanoeuvers · participle present mismanoeuvering · participle past mismanoeuvered · past mismanoeuvered

  1. nonstandardNonstandard form of mismaneuver.

    And yet the boom and so-called " full employment” of the war or quashi-war period must not be mismanoeuvered or misdirected into depression, bankruptcies, slump and unemployment by an abrupt and reckless lowering of prices and profits.

    1949, Calcutta Review, page 24
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    In terms of basic safety, systematic research into increasing ERROR TOLERANCE should be undertaken (for instance, the tolerance of a speed or positioning error on travelling into a bend (see RADOS), a perceptual error in guidance due to markings, a navigation error in a complex area (for example an intersection which generates mismanoeuvering); in terms of advanced safety, error tolerance is essential: where obstacles are scarce and "softened", "welcoming" ditches; escape roads, safety fences and crash barriers . . .

    1985, 15th International Study Week, Traffic Engineering & Safety

    The Gurus who had accepted the sabda, as their Gurū (light sources) had a definite 'No' (though not negatively scornful) for all such prescriptive or analytical mismanoeuvering of so-called mysticals asceticists (irrespective of any clan commune, religion), be they belonging to Hindu mystic-way, Islāmic Sufi way; Jain mystic-way, Bauddh-Nātha ways, Saiva-Śākta mystic-way, etc.

    2007, Himat Singh, The Philosophical Conception of Sábda in Gurū Granth Sāhib, page 167

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