misredeem

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ redeem

Verb

misredeem (third-person singular simple present misredeems, present participle misredeeming, simple past and past participle misredeemed)

1. To redeem inappropriately; to convert to cash under invalid circumstances.
   • 1982, Don E. Schultz, William A. Robinson, Sales Promotion Management, page 32:

     With today's sophisticated copying machines, one of the easiest ways to misredeem coupons is simply through duplication and gang cutting.

   • 1994, Christian Petersen, Alan Toop, Sales Promotion in Postmodern Marketing, page 60:

     Trying to stimulate the sales of a less popular size or variety of a brand, for example, by issuing a coupon redeemable 'only' against that size or variety, will very often fail simply because too many consumers will misredeem the coupon against the most popular size/variety.

   • 2009, Waitrose Food Illustrated, page 7:

     Ecover reserves the right to refuse payment against misredeemed vouchers.

   • 2012, Özalp Özer, Robert Phillips, The Oxford Handbook of Pricing Management, page 591:

     The difficulty is that retailers can misredeem the discount delivery vehicle (e.g., coupon) without a redemption, that is submit coupons for redemption that were not submitted by consumers with purchases.