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mistransact

mistransact verb: to transact badly.

Verb

mistransact (third-person singular simple present mistransacts, present participle mistransacting, simple past and past participle mistransacted)

  1. To transact badly.
    • The Santa Fe Railroad is not a bunch of stockholders who meet every now and then to transact or mistransact their business, but it's the individual I meet.1956, Southwest Shippers Advisory Board, Proceedings of the Regular Meeting, page 22
    • she finds that the earliest developmental levels have been mistransacted.1986, Lawrence A. Bloom, Facilitating Communication Change, page 112

Forms of mistransact

third-person singular presentmistransacts
present participlemistransacting
past participlemistransacted
pastmistransacted

Origin of mistransact

From mis- + transact.

Questions about mistransact

What does mistransact mean?
Mistransact means to transact badly.
What part of speech is mistransact?
Mistransact is a verb.
What is the past tense of mistransact?
The past tense of mistransact is mistransacted.

Words near mistransact in the dictionary

  1. mistrains
  2. mistral
  3. Mistralian
  4. Mistralian norm
  5. mistrals
  6. mistransact
  7. mistransacted
  8. mistransacting
  9. mistransaction
  10. mistransactions
  11. mistransacts

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