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misemˈployment
[mis-1 4.]
Wrong employment or use; improper application.
1597–8Act 39 Eliz. c. 6 §1 The..misimploymentes Falsityes defrauding of the Trustes. a1661Fuller Worthies, Rutlandshire (1662) ii. 348 The pious and liberal gift is much abused by the avarice and mis-imployment of the Governors thereof. a1676Hale Prim. Orig. Man. i. i. (1677) 4 An improvident expence, and misemployment of their time and faculties. 1705Stanhope Paraphr. II. 267 By our Negligence and Mis-employment they prove at last to have been bestowed in vain. 1846Grote Greece i. xvi. I. 497 A misemployment of abstract words. 1877M. Arnold Last Ess. on Church 155 The risks which beset practice from the misemployment of such criticism. |