misdistribute

present singular third person misdistributes · participle present misdistributing · participle past misdistributed · past misdistributed

1. transitiveTo distribute incorrectly or unfairly.

   Like Tanner he is an orator, an outsider, a rebel against the existing political and social order, who believes that society misdistributes wealth horribly.

   1991, John Anthony Bertolini, The playwrighting self of Bernard Shaw, page 44

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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.

   2009, Steven Rosefielde, Red Holocaust, page 240

   Despite Japan's well deserved reputation for high quality export products, its economic system misallocates factors, under-produces, overworks, misdistributes and mistransfers goods and services.

   2013, Steven Rosefielde, Asian Economic Systems, page 182