misprice

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verb

To price incorrectly or unsuitably.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

verbmisprice (third-person singular simple present misprices, present participle mispricing, simple past and past participle mispriced)

present singular third person misprices · participle present mispricing · participle past mispriced · past mispriced

  1. To price incorrectly or unsuitably.
    1 more example

    Instead, in all contexts, markets instill antisocial motivations in buyers and sellers, misprice items that are exchanged, misdirect aims regarding what to produce in what quantities and by what means, misremunerate producers, introduce class division and class rule, and embody an imperial logic that spreads itself throughout economic life.

    2008, Chris Spannos, Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century, page 96

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*mey-?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*meyth₂-
  3. Proto-Germanic*missaz
  4. Proto-Germanic*missa-
  5. Proto-West Germanic*missa-
  6. Old Englishmis-
  7. Middle Englishmys-
  8. Englishmis-
  9. Englishprice
  10. Englishmisprice

From mis- + price.

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