English

malemploy

From mal- + employ.

Formed from mal- + employ

Proto-Italic *malos

Archaic Latin malos

Latin malus ‘bad’

Latin male ‘badly’

English mal-

Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ- ‘to plait, to weave’

Latin plicō ‘to fold’

Latin implicō ‘to infold, entangle, involve, engage’

Anglo-Norman emploier

Middle English emploien

Today it means

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

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / malemploy