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mistransfer

mistransfer verb: to transfer incorrectly.

Verb

mistransfer (third-person singular simple present mistransfers, present participle mistransferring, simple past and past participle mistransferred)

  1. To transfer incorrectly.
    • Despite Japan's well deserved reputation for high quality export products, its economic system misallocates factors, under-produces, overworks, misdistributes and mistransfers goods and services.2013, Steven Rosefielde, Asian Economic Systems, page 182
    • Until expert, they may mistransfer elemental rules but still preserve correct sentence patterns (e.g., Mouses eated honeys and milks.).2014, Grover J. Whitehurst, Barry J. Zimmerman, The Functions of Language and Cognition, page 270

Noun

mistransfer (countable and uncountable, plural mistransfers)

  1. The act of mistransferring.
    • Nevertheless, the coordination with law enforcement personnel in materials of the investigatory outreach of those agencies in tracking and identifying perhaps the mishandling or mistransfer or improper possession of these agents would seem to compel an argument that those functions ought to all be...2002, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Creating the Department of Homeland Security, page 144
    • The situation is further complicated by an individual child's mistransfer of pluralization rules; for example, when the child says womans for women, he models an error for his peers, some of whom may adopt it.2014, Ted L. Rosenthal, Barry J. Zimmerman, Social Learning and Cognition, page 97

Forms of mistransfer

Verb
third-person singular presentmistransfers
present participlemistransferring
past participlemistransferred
pastmistransferred
Noun
pluralmistransfers

Origin of mistransfer

From mis- + transfer.

Questions about mistransfer

What does mistransfer mean?
Mistransfer means to transfer incorrectly.
What part of speech is mistransfer?
Mistransfer can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of mistransfer?
The past tense of mistransfer is mistransferred.

Words near mistransfer in the dictionary

  1. mistranscribing
  2. mistranscript
  3. mistranscription
  4. mistranscriptions
  5. mistranscripts
  6. mistransfer
  7. mistransferred
  8. mistransferring
  9. mistransfers
  10. mistransform
  11. mistransformation

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