Meaning

1 senses

  1. To hire (somebody for work or a job) for which the person is overqualified or overeducated.

    Yesterday our local restaurant malemployed a new waitress with a degree in astrophysics.

Origin

From mal- + employ.

From mal- + employ.

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Forms

malemploys, malemploying, malemployed, malemployed
Base formmalemploy · to malemploy
3rd person singularmalemploys
Present participlemalemploying
Past simplemalemployed
Past participlemalemployed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theymalemploy
he, she, itmalemploys

Past simpleLesson

all personsmalemployed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave malemployed
he, she, ithas malemployed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill malemploy

Word family

1 related words
Relatedmalemployment

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
malariaB2malarkeymaleB1malevolentmalformationmalfunctionC1
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