misdesign

verb, noun — 2 senses

misdesign

verb

Etymology From mis- + design.

1

To 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:

misdesign

noun

Etymology From mis- + design.

1

Bad or wrong design.

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