mistransact
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]mistransact (third-person singular simple present mistransacts, present participle mistransacting, simple past and past participle mistransacted)
- To transact badly.
- 1956, Southwest Shippers Advisory Board, Proceedings of the Regular Meeting, page 22:
- The Santa Fe Railroad is not a bunch of stockholders who meet every now and then to transact or mistransact their business, but it's the individual I meet.
- 1986, Lawrence A. Bloom, Facilitating Communication Change, page 112:
- she finds that the earliest developmental levels have been mistransacted.
- 1990, The Journal of Legal Studies - Volume 19, page 782:
- The literature surveyed in Noll and Krier suggests that A and B might "mistransact" from the standpoint of their own interests because they process certain kinds of information in counterproductive ways.