misexchange
/ˌmɪsɪksˈt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒ/
misexchange verb: to exchange what should not be exchanged, either in error or fraudulently.
Verb
misexchange (third-person singular simple present misexchanges, present participle misexchanging, simple past and past participle misexchanged)
- To exchange what should not be exchanged, either in error or fraudulently
- The E33 values at f 0.02 were misexchanged with those at f 0.08 in . -Ref. 16.2003 August, C. -W. Nan, N. Cai, L. Liu, J. Zhai, Y. Ye, Y. Lin, “Coupled magnetic–electric properties and critical behavior in multiferroic particulate composites”, in Journal of Applied Physics...
- Virginia is 'good' for exchange only as a maid, and if she is to be misexchanged to the detriment of her father's worship, she is better destroyed, her status as empty sign preserved at the cost of all her being.2008, Elliot Kendall, Lordship and Literature, page 142
Noun
misexchange (countable and uncountable, plural misexchanges)
- An exchange (any sense) that did not go as intended or that should not have occurred.
- At three significant points, however, those lines cross to allow glimpses of the social misexchange that bedevils the novel's central characters.1992, South Dakota Review, page 131
- Consider the alternative scenario, implicit in the terms of this moment of misexchange: Daniel is accosted from behind by Kalonymos (although the touch would likely be miraculously transformed in this version to something more on the order of a gentle tug), who asks him who his mother is.1995, Irene A. Tucker, A Probable State: The Novel, the Contract and the Jews, page 339
Forms of misexchange
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | misexchanges |
| present participle | misexchanging |
| past participle | misexchanged |
| past | misexchanged |
| Noun | |
| plural | misexchanges |
Origin of misexchange
From mis- + exchange.
Questions about misexchange
- What does misexchange mean?
- Misexchange means to exchange what should not be exchanged, either in error or fraudulently.
- What part of speech is misexchange?
- Misexchange can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce misexchange?
- Misexchange is pronounced /ˌmɪsɪksˈt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒ/.
- What is the past tense of misexchange?
- The past tense of misexchange is misexchanged.
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