Dictionary

misremunerate en · VERB

Etymology

From mis- + remunerate.

Meanings

1. To remunerate with an inappropriate amount.
   • Further, rural exodus, especially among young generations who refuse to engage themselves in hard, misremunerated agricultural work, is also a cause of the current crisis. 1989, African Study Monographs - Volume 10, page 6:
   • 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:
   • Instead, in all contexts, markets instill antisocial motivations in buyers and sellers, misprice items that are exchanged, misdirect aims regarding what to produce in what quantities and by what means, misremunerate producers, introduce class division and class rule, and embody an imperial logic that spreads itself throughout economic life. 2008, Chris Spannos, Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century, page 96:

Forms

Hyponyms

overpay · underpay