mispromote
verbEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey-? Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der. Proto-Germanic *missaz Proto-Germanic *missa- Proto-West Germanic *missa- Old English mis- Middle English mys- English mis- Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *pér Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *pró Proto-Indo-European *pro- Proto-Italic *pro- Latin prō- Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-der. Proto-Italic *moweō Latin moveō Latin prōmoveō Latin prōmōtusbor. English promote English mispromote From mis- + promote.
- derived from promote English mispromote From mis- + promote
- derived from *moweō Latin moveō Latin prōmoveō Latin prōmōtusbor✻
- derived from *per-der✻
- derived from *mey-? Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der✻
Definitions
To promote incorrectly
To promote incorrectly; to advertise or advocate for something other than the intended use.
- You can weep tears because of an up-to-date vision which misunderstands, mispromotes and bends the truth so as to preserve the eternal powerlessness of Margaret Fuller.
- As black women's works are rejected or mispromoted, " [t] he public ... is allowed to think that black women are generally incapable of literary creation" (Stetson 89) .
- When companies misuse or mispromote TCM herbs, results can be disastrous.
To promote by mistake
To promote by mistake; to elevate to a position for which (someone) is unqualified.
- But the real tragedy, it seems to me, is that these victims of hasty or uninformed promotions struggle from job to job with the stigma of failure when the real failure was not theirs, but that of those who mispromoted them.
- People are C players when they are mishired, mispromoted, or misdeployed within their company.
- Mispromoting internally is about as costly as miss-hiring ^([sic]) an external candidate.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for mispromote. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA