missource
missource verb: to source inappropriately or incorrectly.
Verb
missource (third-person singular simple present missources, present participle missourcing, simple past and past participle missourced)
- To source inappropriately or incorrectly.
- We are also built to give, but even our giving is in our own mode and that mode is totally different from that missourced interpersonal energy exercised by most men (and unfortunately by many women).1991, Margarete Keulen, Radical Imagination, page 96
- Perhaps the most important question about the future of augmenting collective action through the use of the Internet and mobile communications is the degree to which trustworthy and accurate information can be distinguished and screened from misleading, false, missourced information.2008, James Everett Katz, Handbook of Mobile Communication Studies, page 237
Forms of missource
| third-person singular present | missources |
|---|---|
| present participle | missourcing |
| past participle | missourced |
| past | missourced |
Origin of missource
From mis- + source.
Questions about missource
- What does missource mean?
- Missource means to source inappropriately or incorrectly.
- What part of speech is missource?
- Missource is a verb.
- What is the past tense of missource?
- The past tense of missource is missourced.
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