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Meaning of mismail | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1

Definitions

To mail incorrectly; to send (a letter etc.) to the wrong place.

transitive

Examples

“As the disbursing clerk, through his employees, mailed the check in accordance with the address furnished him by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, it seems that no blame⟳ can be attached to him for its mismailing.”
“If the secretary of state mismails it, you are not relieved of liability for filing the report⟳, and, incidentally, there's a $250 fine for not filing it.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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See also

mismailed mismailing mismails mismaintain mismaintained mismaintaining

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