to use for the wrong purpose; use wrongly or improperly; misuse
Derived forms
misemployment
noun
Word origin
[1600–10; mis-1 + employ]This word is first recorded in the period 1600–10. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: criticism, dolly, quarantine, setup, skidmis- is a prefix applied to various parts of speech, meaning “ill,” “mistaken,” “wrong,”“wrongly,” “incorrectly,” or simply negating. Other words that use the affix mis- include: misprint, mistrial, mistrust