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misexecute

misexecute verb: to execute or carry out improperly.

Verb

misexecute (third-person singular simple present misexecutes, present participle misexecuting, simple past and past participle misexecuted)

  1. (transitive) To execute or carry out improperly.
    • It is not going too far to say that if an agent is acting within the general scope of his work, even if he oversteps his orders or misexecutes them, the corporation which employs him to do such work is liable for a tort committed by him thereby.1921, John James Sullivan, American Corporations, page 208
    • Unfortunately, it is the last man in the chain that counts. He is the one who executes, or misexecutes, policy.1966, American Universities Field Staff, Reports Service: Southwest Asia series, page 46

Examples of misexecute in a sentence

  • This inconsistency caused one learner to misexecute one and then the other of these two operations in a dismal cycle of negative transfer as illustrated in Table 6.1987, Ronald M. Baecker, William A. S. Buxton, Readings in Human-computer Interaction, page 290:
  • When the user misexecutes a correct suggestion from the help system, it is natural for the user to consider the possibility that the help system was wrong.1987, Michael Frese, Eberhard Ulich, Wolfgang Dzida, Psychological Issues of Human-computer Interaction in the Workplace, page 268:

Forms of misexecute

third-person singular presentmisexecutes
present participlemisexecuting
past participlemisexecuted
pastmisexecuted

Origin of misexecute

From mis- + execute.

Questions about misexecute

What does misexecute mean?
Misexecute means to execute or carry out improperly.
How do you use misexecute in a sentence?
This inconsistency caused one learner to misexecute one and then the other of these two operations in a dismal cycle of negative transfer as illustrated in Table 6.
What part of speech is misexecute?
Misexecute is a verb.
What is the past tense of misexecute?
The past tense of misexecute is misexecuted.

Words near misexecute in the dictionary

  1. misevents
  2. misexchange
  3. misexchanged
  4. misexchanges
  5. misexchanging
  6. misexecute
  7. misexecuted
  8. misexecutes
  9. misexecuting
  10. misexecution
  11. misexecutions

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