Usually means: Use something or someone wrongly.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word misemploy:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. misemploy: Merriam-Webster
  2. misemploy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. misemploy: Collins English Dictionary
  4. misemploy: Wordnik
  5. misemploy: Wiktionary
  6. misemploy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. misemploy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. misemploy: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Misemploy, misemploy: Dictionary.com
  10. Misemploy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. misemploy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Misemploy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. misemploy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. misemploy: FreeDictionary.org
  15. Misemploy: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. misemploy: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (misemploy)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To employ incorrectly; to misuse.

Similar:
misapply, misuse, misdispose, misoperate, misutilize, misexecute, misprovide, misutilise, misappropriate, misput, more...

Opposite:
employ correctly, utilize effectively, use appropriately

Types:
underuse, mismanage, overuse, waste, squander, hoard, exploit, more...

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Similar:
misapply, misuse, misdispose, misoperate, misutilize, misexecute, misprovide, misutilise, misappropriate, misput, more...

Opposite:
employ correctly, utilize effectively, use appropriately

Types:
underuse, mismanage, overuse, waste, squander, hoard, exploit, more...



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