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misdistribute en · VERB

Etymology

From mis- + distribute.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To distribute incorrectly or unfairly.
   • It misdesigned goods, adversely selected technologies, misallocated and misremunerated factors of production, encouraged work to rule, underproduced, misdistributed outputs and was subject to a myriad of moral hazards. 2009, Steven Rosefielde, Red Holocaust, page 240:
   • Despite Japan's well deserved reputation for high quality export products, its economic system misallocates factors, under-produces, overworks, misdistributes and mistransfers goods and services. 2013, Steven Rosefielde, Asian Economic Systems, page 182:
   • Like Tanner he is an orator, an outsider, a rebel against the existing political and social order, who believes that society misdistributes wealth horribly. 1991, John Anthony Bertolini, The playwrighting self of Bernard Shaw, page 44:

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