mistransfer
Definitions
To transfer incorrectly.
Examples
“Despite Japan's well deserved reputation for high quality export products, its economic system misallocates factors, under-produces, overworks, misdistributes and mistransfers goods and services.”
“Until expert, they may mistransfer elemental rules but still preserve⟳ correct⟳ sentence patterns (e.g., Mouses eated honeys and milks.).”
“When the plaintiff mistransfers something of value (whether tangible or not—eg a service) to the defendant, the common law is clear that legal title passes to the defendant.”
CEFR level
C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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