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missource en · VERB

Etymology

From mis- + source.

Meanings

1. To source inappropriately or incorrectly.
   • 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:
   • That raises the question, discussed in the next section, whether direct attacks on the ability of multinational taxpayers to mis-source or hide income would be more effective at dealing with the problem. 2008, Andrew T. Guzman, Alan. O. Sykes, Research Handbook in International Economic Law, page 343:
   • An extreme example of mis-sourcing would be if an agent provided the CIA with information obtained about his country's activities and plans that he attributed to a high-level government official, when in fact, he actually got the information from a janitor. 2015, Alan B. Trabue, A Life of Lies and Spies, page 82:
   • 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:

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