| 释义 |
misemˈploy, v.
[mis-1 1.]
trans. To employ amiss; to use for a wrong or improper purpose; to put to wrong uses.
1609W. M. Man in the Moone (1849) 16 Much riches were you bequeathed, the more is the pittie you have so little grace to misemploy them. 1654H. L'Estrange Chas. I (1655) 5 Considering how those moneys were mis-imployed, indeed rather thrown away. 1681Dryden Abs. & Achit. 613 'Tis sin to misemploy an hour. 1712Addison Spect. No. 535 ⁋1 That vain and foolish Hope, which is misemployed on Temporal Objects. 1852Grote Greece ii. lxxviii. IX. 335 The force of Athens, misemployed and broken into fragments, is found..unable to repel a new aggressor. 1860Mill Repr. Govt. (1865) 66/1 Not that the depositaries of power will not, but that they cannot, misemploy it. |