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mise

/miːz/

mise noun: the issue in a writ of right.

Noun

mise (plural mises)

  1. The issue in a writ of right.
  2. (obsolete) Expense; cost; disbursement.
  3. (obsolete) A tax or tallage; in Wales, an honorary gift of the people to a new king or prince of Wales; also, a tribute paid, in the county palatine of Chester, England, at the change of the owner of the earldom.

Verb

IPA/maɪz/

mise (third-person singular simple present mises, present participle mising, simple past and past participle mised)

  1. (slang) To make a risky move with no regard for the consequences when the alternative is certain defeat.

mise meaning in Urdu

mise in Urdu

معاہدہ, سمجھوتا, تصفیہ

Forms of mise

Noun
pluralmises
Verb
third-person singular presentmises
present participlemising
past participlemised
pastmised

Plural of mise: mises

Origin of mise

Borrowed from French mise (“a putting, setting, expense”).

Contraction of might as well.

Phrases with mise

Questions about mise

What does mise mean?
Mise means the issue in a writ of right.
What is mise in Urdu?
Mise in Urdu is معاہدہ, سمجھوتا, تصفیہ. See Mise meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is mise?
Mise can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce mise?
Mise is pronounced /miːz/.
What is the plural of mise?
The plural of mise is mises.

Words near mise in the dictionary

  1. misduplicated
  2. misduplicates
  3. misduplicating
  4. misduplication
  5. misduplications
  6. mise
  7. mise en abyme
  8. mise en abymes
  9. mise en cadre
  10. mise en espace
  11. mise en place

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mise (page history and authors); mise (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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