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SCREWUP

English dictionary: Word overview

SCREWUP (noun)
  The noun SCREWUP has 1 sense:

1. the complete mismanagement or mishandling of a situation

  Familiarity information: SCREWUP used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


SCREWUP (noun)


Sense 1screwup [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

The complete mismanagement or mishandling of a situation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

a typical bureaucratic screwup

Hypernyms ("screwup" is a kind of...):

misdirection; mismanagement (management that is careless or inefficient)


English Proverbs
"A stitch in time saves nine."
(English proverb)
"To make a poor man poorer is not easy"
(Breton proverb)

"He who wins the first hand, leaves with only his pants in hand."
(Corsican proverb)

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