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mispromotion en · NOUN

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 Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Late Latin prōmotiōder. Old French promocionbor. Middle English English promotion English mispromotion From mis- + promotion.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The act of mispromoting; the advertisement of something as having properties it does not have.
   • “There is a strong incentive for employees to report mispromotion or other acts that might be regarded as a false claim – whistleblowers get 15 to 30 percent of what the government collects,” he points out. 2006 October 17, O Avitzur, T Valeo, “What Physicians Can Say About Off-Label Therapies—Lawsuits Could Set New Precedents”, in Neurology Today:
   • Mr. Speaker, the legal theory of Brown against Topeka rejecting a denial of freedom of choice because of race has suffered mispromotion to the point that today “freedom of choice" is again illegal. 1969 March 3, John R. Rarick, Congressional Record, page 4998:
   • The rapid decrease in fat trim of retail beef cuts in the U.S. from 1986 (13mm) to 1988 (< 3mm) (Cross et al 1988 ) is surely an indication that institutionalised "imposition" of an historic quality grading system can result in a mispromotion of product with costs of heroic proportions. 1995, Proceedings: Linking science and technology to societal benefits, page 205:
2. (countable, uncountable) The act of promoting someone to a position for which they are not qualified.
   • This mispromotion phenomenon has become popularly known as the Peter Principle (12). 1978, Thomas J. Atchison, Winston W. Hill, Management Today: Managing Work in Organizations, page 146:
   • For, still today, I continue to be amazed at how many senior executives fail fully to realize the potentially ruinous cost of a mis-hire or mispromotion. 1991, John Wareham, The Anatomy of a Great Executive, page 5:
   • Every manager sitting with HR to analyze the costs of every mishire, by reviewing the total hiring file on the mis-hire or mispromotion, sees that cutting corners on Topgrading methods is foolish because it is so costly. 2012, Bradford D. Smart, Topgrading:
3. (countable, uncountable) A person who has been mispromoted.
   • The other three-fourths (the B- and C-Players) become mishires and mispromotions. 2009, Chris Lauer, The Management Gurus:

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