Miscirculate

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To circulate badly, such as among the wrong people or not widely enough.

    "Masters wants his money back so he can burn it, because, as he says, "it's no good to me after they've handled it." It has circulated in the wrong space, miscirculated in that other space, a space of labor, industry, and poverty which must be held off."

Example

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"Masters wants his money back so he can burn it, because, as he says, "it's no good to me after they've handled it." It has circulated in the wrong space, miscirculated in that other space, a space of labor, industry, and poverty which must be held off."

Etymology

From mis- + circulate.

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