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misprovide

misprovide verb: to provide badly or wrongly.

Verb

misprovide (third-person singular simple present misprovides, present participle misproviding, simple past and past participle misprovided)

  1. (intransitive) To provide badly or wrongly.
    • On the other hand, the contractor may have deliberately taken no action, or have continued to misunderstand/misprovide the service under examination.2016, Lori Keating, Performance Auditing of Public Sector Property Contracts, page 93

Forms of misprovide

third-person singular presentmisprovides
present participlemisproviding
past participlemisprovided
pastmisprovided

Origin of misprovide

From mis- + provide.

Questions about misprovide

What does misprovide mean?
Misprovide means to provide badly or wrongly.
What part of speech is misprovide?
Misprovide is a verb.
What is the past tense of misprovide?
The past tense of misprovide is misprovided.

Words near misprovide in the dictionary

  1. misprosecuting
  2. misproud
  3. misprove
  4. misproved
  5. misproves
  6. misprovide
  7. misprovided
  8. misprovides
  9. misproviding
  10. misproving
  11. mispublicize

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