misauthorize

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verb

To authorize erroneously.

Scrabble 26

Meanings

verbmisauthorize (third-person singular simple present misauthorizes, present participle misauthorizing, simple past and past participle misauthorized)

present singular third person misauthorizes · participle present misauthorizing · participle past misauthorized · past misauthorized

  1. raretransitiveTo authorize erroneously.

    This would not only allow paths sharing nodes with this tag's path to be wrongfully unauthorized, but would eventually misauthorize the repeatedly scanning tag as well.

    2009, Yan Zhang, Laurence T. Yang, Jiming Chen, RFID and Sensor Networks, page 136

Origin

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APA

misauthorize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misauthorize

MLA

“misauthorize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misauthorize. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “misauthorize,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misauthorize.

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