mistransfer
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To transfer incorrectly.
Example Sentences
- "Despite Japan's well deserved reputation for high quality export products, its economic system misallocates factors, under-produces, overworks, misdistributes and mistransfers goods and services."
- "Until expert, they may mistransfer elemental rules but still preserve correct sentence patterns (e.g., Mouses eated honeys and milks.)."
- "When the plaintiff mistransfers something of value (whether tangible or not—eg a service) to the defendant, the common law is clear that legal title passes to the defendant."
- "Nevertheless, the coordination with law enforcement personnel in materials of the investigatory outreach of those agencies in tracking and identifying perhaps the mishandling or mistransfer or improper possession of these agents would seem to compel an argument that those functions ought to all be coordi- nated out of the same office, does it not?"
- "The situation is further complicated by an individual child's mistransfer of pluralization rules; for example, when the child says womans for women, he models an error for his peers, some of whom may adopt it."
- "While the plaintiff cannot directly, ie independently of judicial say-so, retake the object of her mistransfer, the defendant is nonetheless powerless to prevent her from claiming its full value following a successful action in unjust enrichment."