Misdesign
noun, verb
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 Bad or wrong design. uncountable
Verb
- 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
More examples"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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