Usually means: Using skills in unsuitable job roles.
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  1. misemployment: Merriam-Webster
  2. misemployment: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. misemployment: Collins English Dictionary
  4. misemployment: Wordnik
  5. misemployment: Wiktionary
  6. Misemployment, misemployment: Dictionary.com
  7. Misemployment: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. misemployment: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Misemployment: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. misemployment: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. misemployment: FreeDictionary.org
  12. Misemployment: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (misemployment)

▸ noun:  Wrong or unsuitable employment; misuse.

Similar:
misapplication, misuse, misoccupation, misusage, misutilization, mis-hire, miswork, misimprovement, mispurpose, mishandle, more...

Opposite:
employment, job, occupation, work

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Similar:
misapplication, misuse, misoccupation, misusage, misutilization, mis-hire, miswork, misimprovement, mispurpose, mishandle, more...

Opposite:
employment, job, occupation, work



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