Definition of "misdirect"
verb
third-person singular simple present misdirects, present participle misdirecting, simple past and past participle misdirected
To direct something wrongly
Quotations
Instead, in all contexts, markets instill antisocial motivations in buyers and sellers, misprice items that are exchanged, misdirect aims regarding what to produce in what quantities and by what means, misremunerate producers, introduce class division and class rule, and embody an imperial logic that spreads itself throughout economic life.
2008, Chris Spannos, Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century, page 96