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mishire en · NOUN

From mis- + hire.

The act of mishiring.
- As if the barrage of negative feedback was not evidence enough of a mishire, within six months her entire team quit, including me. 2001, Diane Downey, Assimilating New Leaders: The Key to Executive Retention, page 61:
- Most mishires stem from the fact that some item of intelligence was not collected at the time of hiring. 1995, John Wareham, The New Secrets of a Corporate Headhunter, page 85:
- Perhaps even more important, alumni are known quantities; the risk of a costly mishire is almost completely eliminated. 2007 ·, Ronald Joseph Baker, Mind Over Matter, page 233:
An unsuitable person who has been mishired.
- The other three-fourths (the B- and C-Players) become mishires and mispromotions. 2009, Chris Lauer, The Management Gurus:
- Merely by representing salary and/or job description in annual terms, you may be legally stuck with a mishire for that one-year period. 1996, Allan Krieff, Manager's Survival Guide, page 43:
- If they are basically in business for themselves to do what they want to do rather than what you need done you have a mishire who you need to get out of the organiztion quickly. 2005, Andrew L. Ross, Gary L. Grenier, Frank J. Kros, Creating the Upside Down Organization, page 177:

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
mishires	Number=Plur		lexicographic
mis-hire		alternative	lexicographic

From mis- + hire.

To hire an unsuitable person for a job.
- Worse, many times they hire someone they thought was just like what they wanted, but – because of imprecision in the screening and interviewing process — the person wasn't even that! It's very easy to mishire people for jobs at which, realistically, their innate shortcomings will prevent them from ever performing beyond a mediocre level. 1998, Don Blohowiak ·, Your People Are Your Product, page 58:
- Whether it be a banker that mishires a teller that steals money, whether it be industry that mishires an accountant, regardless. of what it may be, the best they can do is remove him when they find him guilty of wrongdoing after he has come into the organization. 1957, United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field, Hearings - Volume 3, page 4302:
- Today's lawyers run the risk of feeding the "greedy, arrogant law firm" persona already well-established in the minds of most people when they mishire, mismanage, and improperly funnel resources. 2005, Business Law Today - Volume 15, page 14:

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
mishired	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
mishired	Tense=Past		lexicographic
mishires	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres		lexicographic
mishiring	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
mis-hire		alternative	lexicographic