misshipment
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A shipment that is misdelivered; an instance of misshipping.
Example Sentences
- "In an action for loss sustained by misshipment of freight to the wrong destination, plaintiff was entitled to testify to a statement by defendant's agent as to what the freight would be, when directions were given to ship the car to a correct destination."
- "L.A. Gear, which, Schilit explains, was charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission with overstating its income by including as revenue one-time credits from vendors for supplier misshipments and other sourcing troubles."
- "Occasionally, as in the case of Bobby Collins, employees were not disciplined for misship ments."
- "Cables accounted for only 16% of the short shipments and misshipments."