Misemploy

  • 11misemploy — mis·employ …

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  • 12misemploy — mis em•ploy′ v. t …

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  • 13misemploy — /mɪsəmˈplɔɪ/ (say misuhm ploy) verb (t) to employ wrongly or improperly; misuse. –misemployment, noun …

  • 14misemploy — v.tr. employ or use wrongly or improperly. Derivatives: misemployment n …

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  • 15misuse — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. misusage, misemploy ment, misapplication, misappropriation; abuse, profanation, perversion, prostitution, ill use, ill usage; desecration; waste. v. t. misemploy, misapply, misappropriate; ill use. II …

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  • 16abuse — 1 /ə byüz/ vt abused, abus·ing 1: to put to a use other than the one intended: as a: to put to a bad or unfair use abusing the powers of office b: to put to improper or excessive use abuse narcotics …

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  • 17misappropriate — mis·ap·pro·pri·ate /ˌmi sə prō prē ˌāt/ vt: to appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully (as by theft or embezzlement) mis·ap·pro·pri·a·tion / ˌprō prē ā shən/ n Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …

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  • 18mishandle — I (maltreat) verb abuse, assail, assault, batter, defile, handle badly, ill treat, ill use, impose upon, injure, manhandle, maul, misemploy, misuse, molest, overburden, persecute, ravish, rough, treat abusively, treat ill, treat improperly,… …

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  • 19mismanage — I verb act foolishly, act improperly, administer improperly, administer inefficiently, administer poorly, blunder, boggle, botch, bungle, confound, derange, disarrange, fail, flounder, fumble, ill manage, maladminister, manage poorly, manage… …

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  • 20mistreat — I verb abuse, afflict, aggrieve, annoy, assail, assault, attack, badger, be hurtful, be malevolent, be offensive, be pitiless, be rude, be violent, bear malice, berate, bother, bruise, bully, burden, cause evil, cause pain, create havoc, debase,… …

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