Meanings
verbmisdesign (third-person singular simple present misdesigns, present participle misdesigning, simple past and past participle misdesigned)
present singular third person misdesigns · participle present misdesigning · participle past misdesigned · past misdesigned
- transitiveTo design badly or incorrectly.
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.
2009, Steven Rosefielde, Red Holocaust, page 240
nounmisdesign (uncountable)
- uncountableBad or wrong design.
Origin
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “misdesign,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misdesign.
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