miscirculate

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ circulate

Verb

miscirculate (third-person singular simple present miscirculates, present participle miscirculating, simple past and past participle miscirculated)

1. To circulate badly, such as among the wrong people or not widely enough.
   • 1989, Sharon Willis, “Seductive Spaces”, in Dianne Hunter, editor, Seduction and Theory: Readings of Gender, Representation, and Rhetoric, page 65:

     Masters wants his money back so he can burn it, because, as he says, "it's no good to me after they've handled it." It has circulated in the wrong space, miscirculated in that other space, a space of labor, industry, and poverty which must be held off.

   • 2007, Joyce Chaplin, The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius:

     On Christmas Day in 1773, Franklin identified himself as the source of the miscirculated letters in order to prevent suspicion from falling on others. Franklin's confession came only nine days after the Boston Tea Party—bad timing.

   • 2019 June, John Woods, “Four grades of ignorance-involvement and how they nourish the cognitive economy”, in Synthese:

     A healthy economy produces and circulates its goods in the markets in which it operates. A sick money economy under-serves demand and miscirculates its products.