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misemployed

misemployed is the simple past and past participle of misemploy.

Meaning of misemploy

Verb

misemploy (third-person singular simple present misemploys, present participle misemploying, simple past and past participle misemployed)

  1. (transitive) To employ incorrectly; to misuse.

Questions about misemployed

What is misemployed the simple past and past participle of?
Misemployed is the simple past and past participle of misemploy.

Words near misemployed in the dictionary

  1. misemphasize
  2. misemphasized
  3. misemphasizes
  4. misemphasizing
  5. misemploy
  6. misemployed
  7. misemploying
  8. misemployment
  9. misemployments
  10. misemploys
  11. misempower

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misemployed (page history and authors); misemploy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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