misauthorize

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

mis- +‎ authorize

Verb[edit]

misauthorize (third-person singular simple present misauthorizes, present participle misauthorizing, simple past and past participle misauthorized)

  1. (transitive, rare) To authorize erroneously.
    • 2009, Yan Zhang, Laurence T. Yang, Jiming Chen, RFID and Sensor Networks, page 136:
      This would not only allow paths sharing nodes with this tag's path to be wrongfully unauthorized, but would eventually misauthorize the repeatedly scanning tag as well.