misremunerate

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ remunerate

Verb

misremunerate (third-person singular simple present misremunerates, present participle misremunerating, simple past and past participle misremunerated)

1. To remunerate with an inappropriate amount.

   Hyponyms: underpay, overpay

   • 1989, African Study Monographs - Volume 10, page 6:

     Further, rural exodus, especially among young generations who refuse to engage themselves in hard, misremunerated agricultural work, is also a cause of the current crisis.

   • 2008, Chris Spannos, Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century, page 96:

     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 that spreads itself throughout economic life.

   • 2009, Steven Rosefielde, Red Holocaust, page 240:

     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.