misforecast
/mɪsˈfɔː(ɹ)kæst/
misforecast verb: to forecast incorrectly; to make an erroneous prediction.
Verb
misforecast (third-person singular simple present misforecasts, present participle misforecasting, simple past and past participle misforecast or (common, but sometimes proscribed) misforecasted)
- To forecast incorrectly; to make an erroneous prediction.
- Maybe she ordered too many, or misforecast and picked wrong colors, or woke up to find that trend she hopped on changed overnight and she's stuck with an order that won't sell anywhere at any price.1999, Barbara Jaye Wilson, Capped Off, page 81
- Are any elections misforecast? Yes, the elections of 1960 and 1968 are misforecast.2008, Brad Lockerbie, Do Voters Look to the Future?: Economics and Elections, page 117
Noun
misforecast (plural misforecasts)
- The act of misforecasting.
- He offered his plans for revision to the authorities, but the adoption of his ideas was unfortunately postponed because of his misforecast of the solar eclipse of June 1675 .1964, Monumenta Nipponica, page 300
- Energy overpayments result primarily from the misforecast of oil prices.1988, Joint CEC/CPUC Hearings on Excess Generating Capacity: (SB 1970), page 55
- The result of misforecasting; misprediction.
- The misforecast of 7.25 million crudely equals the total population of North and South Carolina, or New York (1970 censu ), or Austria.1978, National Center for Productivity and Quality of Working Life, The Future of Productivity: Report of a National Conference, page 122
- If you misforecast right now's load you really inject x plus or minus the amount of the misforecast.1995, Energy Modeling, page 3
Examples of misforecast in a sentence
- In the more general case, the agent may misforecast demand and consequently view the tradeoff between a higher co-pay and a lower premium as being more or less favorable than it actually is.2019, Amitbh Chandra, Benjamin Handel, Joshua Schwartzstein, “Behavioral economics and health-care markets”, in B. Doublas Bernheim...
- The numbers can be roughly interpreted as the degree of misforecast of the level of aggregate demand.1991, Kazuo Ueda, Japanese Monetary Policy During 1970-1990: Rules Or Discretion?, page 3:
- We use the actual misforecast instead of the actual change in the spot rate because the speculator invests in deposits according to the forward premium.1998, Quarterly Journal of Business and Economics, page 58:
Forms of misforecast
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | misforecasts |
| present participle | misforecasting |
| past participle | misforecast |
| past | misforecast |
| past participle common error-unknown-tag proscribed sometimes | misforecasted |
| past common error-unknown-tag proscribed sometimes | misforecasted |
| Noun | |
| plural | misforecasts |
Origin of misforecast
From mis- + forecast.
Questions about misforecast
- What does misforecast mean?
- Misforecast means to forecast incorrectly; to make an erroneous prediction.
- How do you use misforecast in a sentence?
- In the more general case, the agent may misforecast demand and consequently view the tradeoff between a higher co-pay and a lower premium as being more or less favorable than it actually is.
- What part of speech is misforecast?
- Misforecast can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce misforecast?
- Misforecast is pronounced /mɪsˈfɔː(ɹ)kæst/.
- What is the past tense of misforecast?
- The past tense of misforecast is misforecast.
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