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miscirculating

miscirculating is the present participle and gerund of miscirculate.

Meaning of miscirculate

Verb

miscirculate (third-person singular simple present miscirculates, present participle miscirculating, simple past and past participle miscirculated)

  1. To circulate badly, such as among the wrong people or not widely enough.
    • Masters wants his money back so he can burn it, because, as he says, "it's no good to me after they've handled it." It has circulated in the wrong space, miscirculated in that other space, a space of labor, industry, and poverty which must be held off.1989, Sharon Willis, “Seductive Spaces”, in Dianne Hunter, editor, Seduction and Theory: Readings of Gender, Representation, and Rhetoric, page 65

Questions about miscirculating

What is miscirculating the present participle and gerund of?
Miscirculating is the present participle and gerund of miscirculate.

Words near miscirculating in the dictionary

  1. miscible
  2. miscibly
  3. miscirculate
  4. miscirculated
  5. miscirculates
  6. miscirculating
  7. miscirculation
  8. miscitation
  9. miscitations
  10. miscite
  11. miscited

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