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misprice

misprice verb: to price incorrectly or unsuitably.

Verb

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

  1. To price incorrectly or unsuitably.
    • 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...2008, Chris Spannos, Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century, page 96

Forms of misprice

third-person singular presentmisprices
present participlemispricing
past participlemispriced
pastmispriced

Origin of misprice

From mis- + price.

Questions about misprice

What does misprice mean?
Misprice means to price incorrectly or unsuitably.
What part of speech is misprice?
Misprice is a verb.
What is the past tense of misprice?
The past tense of misprice is mispriced.

Words near misprice in the dictionary

  1. mispress
  2. mispressed
  3. mispresses
  4. mispressing
  5. mispressings
  6. misprice
  7. mispriced
  8. misprices
  9. mispricing
  10. mispricings
  11. misprime

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