misreward

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ reward.

Verb

misreward (third-person singular simple present misrewards, present participle misrewarding, simple past and past participle misrewarded)

1. To reward inappropriately.
   • 1972, Dissertation Abstracts International, page 418:

     Subjects who were intentionally misrewarded by an involved agent (Other) made the largest reallocations; this presumably reflects the presence of reciprocity motivation which exacerbated the effects of equity motivation.

   • 1976, Helen Louise McGuffie, Samuel Johnson in the British Press, 1749-1784, page 88:

     Letter addressed to Earl of Chesterfield, signed "P.P.S." Includes incidental mention of SJ among other writers whose "apostacy from Jacobitism to Georgism . . . have been misrewarded . . with pensions instead of the pillory."

   • 2015, Steven Rosefielde, Comparative Economic Systems:

     The isoquant levels within the production space have been reduced because capital and labor are misincentivized, misrewarded, and therefore misallocated and undersupplied.