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Meaning of missource | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

To source inappropriately or incorrectly.

Examples

“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).”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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