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What (who) is misdirect - definition
misdirect
(misdirects, misdirecting, misdirected)
1.
If resources or efforts are misdirected, they are used in the wrong way or for the wrong purposes.
Many of the aid projects in the developing world have been misdirected in the past.
VERB: usu passive, be V-ed
• misdirected
...a misdirected effort to mollify the bishop.
ADJ
2.
If you misdirect someone, you send them in the wrong direction.
He had deliberately misdirected the reporters.
VERB: V n
Misdirect
·vt To give a wrong direction to; as, to misdirect a passenger, or a letter; to misdirect one's energies.
misdirect
¦ verb
1. direct wrongly.
2. (of a judge) instruct (a jury) wrongly.
Derivatives
misdirection noun
Examples of use of misdirect
1. Rivalries are not established that misdirect resources.
2. These detect aircraft emissions designed to misdirect the missiles.
3. "It happens right in front of the spectator‘s eyes but I misdirect their attention away from the cigarette," says Kuhn.
4. Still other e–mails misdirect the user to bogus sites intended to lure people into divulging personal financial information.
5. Let that be a lesson to you, even if in the process the judge did manage to misdirect the jury.