misdesign

English

Etymology

mis- + design

Verb

misdesign (third-person singular simple present misdesigns, present participle misdesigning, simple past and past participle misdesigned)

  1. (transitive) To design badly or incorrectly.
    • 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.

Noun

misdesign (uncountable)

  1. Bad or wrong design.

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