Mishire
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The act of mishiring.
"Most mishires stem from the fact that some item of intelligence was not collected at the time of hiring."
- 2 An unsuitable person who has been mishired.
"Merely by representing salary and/or job description in annual terms, you may be legally stuck with a mishire for that one-year period."
- 1 To hire an unsuitable person for a job.
"Whether it be a banker that mishires a teller that steals money, whether it be industry that mishires an accountant, regardless. of what it may be, the best they can do is remove him when they find him guilty of wrongdoing after he has come into the organization."
Example
More examples"Whether it be a banker that mishires a teller that steals money, whether it be industry that mishires an accountant, regardless. of what it may be, the best they can do is remove him when they find him guilty of wrongdoing after he has come into the organization."
Etymology
From mis- + hire.
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