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misuser en · NOUN

Etymology

* from misuse + -er

Meanings

1. A person who misuses something.
   • He said that lessons from the pilots would be carried forward into the plan to dock the benefits of drug misusers who failed to attend for job interviews. 2009 February 28, Alan Travis, “Scheme to dock benefits of offenders defaulting on sentences is wound up”, in The Guardian:
   • Wretched misusers of language. c. 1812, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Friend:
2. unlawful use of a right; use in excess of, or varying from, one's right

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Translations (1)

fi väärinkäyttäjä (person who misuses something)