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misship

misship verb: to ship incorrectly, such as to the wrong location or at the wrong time.

Verb

misship (third-person singular simple present misships, present participle misshipping, simple past and past participle misshipped)

  1. To ship incorrectly, such as to the wrong location or at the wrong time.
    • Agent Garretson had suggested to Yoshida that he could arrange for an IBM employee to misship a kit, and if Yoshida could find a buyer he would give Yoshida a sizable share of the profits.1984, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Unfair Foreign Trade Practices, page 33
    • The FBI would come, find our bundles and water them down, or misship our stuff on purpose.2011, Sean Stewart, On the Ground

Forms of misship

third-person singular presentmisships
present participlemisshipping
past participlemisshipped
pastmisshipped

Origin of misship

From mis- + ship.

Questions about misship

What does misship mean?
Misship means to ship incorrectly, such as to the wrong location or at the wrong time.
What part of speech is misship?
Misship is a verb.
What is the past tense of misship?
The past tense of misship is misshipped.

Words near misship in the dictionary

  1. misshelvings
  2. misshift
  3. misshifted
  4. misshifting
  5. misshifts
  6. misship
  7. misshipment
  8. misshipments
  9. misshipped
  10. misshipping
  11. misships

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