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mistransaction en · NOUN

Etymology

From mis- + transaction.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) The process of mistransacting.
   • If they are going to be found, they can only be found if we shift our perspective from a two-sided conflict or engagement or relationship between press and government, between politician and reporter, and look at both of them in terms of the essential third party in mistransaction, which is the public . 1971, Congressional Record, page 25087:
   • There shan't be any mistransaction while I am in vogue. 1973 ·, Mary Fay Campbell Schertz, Descendants of John and Nancy Floyd, page 251:
2. (countable) A transaction that does not go well; an instance of mistransacting.
   • If he's our man, we know he was done in by an inner thing, an internal mistransaction. 2009, Carlton Thurman, Caddie Esoterica, page 512:
   • So far only one mistransaction has taken place out of the tens of thousands that have been made. 1988, Microelectronics Monitor - Issues 25-28, page 40:
   • By endorsement, failure, and other mistransactions, Mr. Hill became reduced in circumstances, and died in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1845. 2020, Martin Robinson Delany, The Conditon, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States, page 57:

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