misconduct
English
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
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Noun
misconduct (usually uncountable, plural misconducts)
- behavior that is considered to be unacceptable.
- The student was threatened with a £2000 fine and banned from using the university's computing resources for two weeks due to gross misconduct on the Internet.
Translations
bad behavior — see misbehavior
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Verb
misconduct (third-person singular simple present misconducts, present participle misconducting, simple past and past participle misconducted)
- (transitive) To mismanage. [from 18th c.]
- (reflexive) To behave inappropriately, to misbehave. [from 19th c.]
- 1958, Doris Lessing, A Ripple From the Storm, Harper Perennal 1995, p. 224:
- It had been pointed out […] that in the past enemy aliens misconducting themselves had been returned to the internment camp.
- 1958, Doris Lessing, A Ripple From the Storm, Harper Perennal 1995, p. 224:
- (intransitive, rare) To act improperly.
Translations
mismanage — see mismanage
misbehave — see misbehave
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