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mispromote en · VERB

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey-? Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der. Proto-Germanic *missaz Proto-Germanic *missa- Proto-West Germanic *missa- Old English mis- Middle English mys- English mis- Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *pér Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *pró Proto-Indo-European *pro- Proto-Italic *pro- Latin prō- Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *m(y)owh₁éyeti Proto-Italic *moweō Latin moveō Latin prōmoveō Latin prōmōtusbor. English promote English mispromote From mis- + promote.

Meanings

1. To promote incorrectly; to advertise or advocate for something other than the intended use.
   • When companies misuse or mispromote TCM herbs, results can be disastrous. 2013, Daniel Potter, Jennifer Hanin, What to Do When You Can't Get Pregnant:
   • You can weep tears because of an up-to-date vision which misunderstands, mispromotes and bends the truth so as to preserve the eternal powerlessness of Margaret Fuller. 1988, Laurie James, Why Margaret Fuller Ossoli is Forgotten, page 31:
   • Our own study began in 1974, after we had published a report on how prescription drugs in the United States are discovered, produced, promoted, priced, prescribed by physicians and used by patients — and how these potent products are too frequently mispromoted, mis-prescribed and misused. 2022, Richard Blum, Andrew Herxheimer, Catherine Stenzl, Pharmaceuticals and Health Policy:
   • As black women's works are rejected or mispromoted, " [t] he public ... is allowed to think that black women are generally incapable of literary creation" (Stetson 89) . 1996, Linda Tate, A Southern Weave of Women: Fiction of the Contemporary South, page 181:
   • Yellow Submarine was a commercial flop in Britain, mainly because it was mispromoted as a children's film. 2014, Simon Philo, British Invasion: The Crosscurrents of Musical Influence, page 135:
   • Boxing Helena was so misunderstood and so mispromoted. Boxing Helena was never about “This is women's fault.” 2020, Courtenay Stallings, Sheryl Lee, Laura's Ghost: Women Speak About Twin Peaks:
2. To promote by mistake; to elevate to a position for which (someone) is unqualified.
   • People are C players when they are mishired, mispromoted, or misdeployed within their company. 1997, BD Smart, GH Smart, Topgrading the organization:
   • But the real tragedy, it seems to me, is that these victims of hasty or uninformed promotions struggle from job to job with the stigma of failure when the real failure was not theirs, but that of those who mispromoted them. 1957, Foundry Management & Technology - Volume 85, Issues 1-6, page 174:
   • Mispromoting internally is about as costly as miss-hiring ^([sic]) an external candidate. 2009, Ivanka Menken, Organizational behavior and leadership management essentials, page 162:

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