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misplan en · NOUN

Etymology

From mis- + plan.

Meanings

1. (rare) A poorly made or inappropriate plan.
   • On the short end, failure is a poor choice: on the long end, the failure is in planning, a misplan. 1995, Ed Dougherty, “'Violation'—does HRA need the concept?”, in Reliability Engineering & System Safety, volume 47, number 2:
   • Unfortunately, due to some odd mistake, misfortune, misplan or whatever, their weapons had been placed on separate shipping and ended up somewhere else in Vietnam. 2002, Kenneth P. Sympson, Images from the Otherland, page 46:
   • Misjudgements are sub-divided into misplans and poor choices. 2008, Thomas Hoff, Cato Alexander Bjørkli, Embodied Minds--technical Environments, page 37:

Forms

misplan en · VERB

Etymology

From mis- + plan.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To plan badly or incorrectly.
   • The busy person is likely to commit an even bigger planning error; after all, he is likely still needing to attend to his last project and is more distracted and overwhelmed—a surefire way to misplan. 2013, Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir, Scarcity: Why having too little means so much:
   • The current economic meltdown had caused the company to misplan, and the company knew it would be in violation of its credit agreement during the first quarter. 2010, Harlan D. Platt, Lead with Cash: Cash Flow for Corporate Renewal, page 211:
   • It is possible to misplan and misplan badly. 1983, Oskar Gruenwald, The Yugoslav Search for Man, page 142:

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Translations (1)

el κακοϋπολογίζω (to plan badly or incorrectly)