单词 | misemployment |
释义 | misemploymentn. Wrong employment or use; improper application. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [noun] abusion?1387 misusing1395 misusea1398 abusingc1450 abuse?1473 misordering1526 abusage1548 misusage1567 misemployment1597 missaw1614 misimprovement1644 abusivenessa1677 misemploying1686 violation1795 1597–8 Act 39 Eliz. c. 6 §1 The..misimploymentes Falsityes defrauding of the Trustes. 1646 R. Butcher Surv. & Antiq. Stamford ix. 33 A very pious and liberall guift, though..much abused by the avarice and misimployment of the Governours thereof. a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) i. i. 4 An improvident expence, and misemployment of their time and faculties. 1705 G. Stanhope Paraphr. Epist. & Gospels II. 267 By our Negligence and Mis-employment they prove at last to have been bestowed in vain. 1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece I. i. xvi. 497 A misemployment of abstract words. 1877 M. Arnold Last Ess. on Church & Relig. 155 The risks which beset practice from the misemployment of such criticism. 1978 Daily Tel. 28 Nov. 12/3 Underemployment and misemployment could pass unnoticed..much more easily in the public sector than in a private company. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1597 |
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