Mispromotion
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Mispromotion is a noun meaning The act of mispromoting; the advertisement of something as having properties it does not have.
Meaning
The act of mispromoting; the advertisement of something as having properties it does not have.
More Meanings
- The act of promoting someone to a position for which they are not qualified.
- A person who has been mispromoted.
Example Sentences
The other three-fourths (the B- and C-Players) become mishires and mispromotions.
This mispromotion phenomenon has become popularly known as the Peter Principle (12).
For, still today, I continue to be amazed at how many senior executives fail fully to realize the potentially ruinous cost of a mis-hire or mispromotion.
Mr. Speaker, the legal theory of Brown against Topeka rejecting a denial of freedom of choice because of race has suffered mispromotion to the point that today “freedom of choice" is again illegal.
Word Forms
- mispromotions
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include marketeering, misrepresenting, misdescription, mispurchase, mischaracterization, misframing.
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