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misauthorize

misauthorize verb: to authorize erroneously.

Verb

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

  1. (rare, transitive) To authorize erroneously.
    • 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.2009, Yan Zhang, Laurence T. Yang, Jiming Chen, RFID and Sensor Networks, page 136

Forms of misauthorize

third-person singular presentmisauthorizes
present participlemisauthorizing
past participlemisauthorized
pastmisauthorized

Origin of misauthorize

From mis- + authorize.

Questions about misauthorize

What does misauthorize mean?
Misauthorize means to authorize erroneously.
What part of speech is misauthorize?
Misauthorize is a verb.
What is the past tense of misauthorize?
The past tense of misauthorize is misauthorized.

Words near misauthorize in the dictionary

  1. misaudit
  2. misaudited
  3. misauditing
  4. misaudits
  5. misauthorization
  6. misauthorize
  7. misauthorized
  8. misauthorizes
  9. misauthorizing
  10. misaventure
  11. misaventures

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