Misdesign

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Bad or wrong design. uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    To design badly or incorrectly. transitive

    "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."

Example

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"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."

Etymology

From mis- + design.

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