misdistribute
English edit
Etymology edit
mis- + distribute
Verb edit
misdistribute (third-person singular simple present misdistributes, present participle misdistributing, simple past and past participle misdistributed)
- (transitive) To distribute incorrectly or unfairly.
- 1991, John Anthony Bertolini, The playwrighting self of Bernard Shaw, page 44:
- Like Tanner he is an orator, an outsider, a rebel against the existing political and social order, who believes that society misdistributes wealth horribly.
- 2009, Steven Rosefielde, Red Holocaust, page 240:
- It misdesigned goods, adversely selected technologies, misallocated and misremunerated factors of production, encouraged work to rule, underproduced, misdistributed outputs and was subject to a myriad of moral hazards.
- 2013, Steven Rosefielde, Asian Economic Systems, page 182:
- Despite Japan's well deserved reputation for high quality export products, its economic system misallocates factors, under-produces, overworks, misdistributes and mistransfers goods and services.