screwup

/ˌskruˈʌp/
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Other forms: screwups

Definitions of screwup
  1. noun
    the complete mismanagement or mishandling of a situation
    “a typical bureaucratic screwup”
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    type of:
    misdirection, mismanagement
    management that is careless or inefficient
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