misnotification

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noun

The act of misnotifying.

Scrabble 22

Meanings

nounmisnotification (countable and uncountable, plural misnotifications)

plural misnotifications

  1. countableuncountableThe act of misnotifying.

    So there was no misnotification as far as that goes.

    1992, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Investigations, Friendly Fire/casualty Notification Procedures, page 135
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    One of them is the question of notifying this large mass of people as to whom no field referrals were made–as to whom there is no systemic linkage and as to whom we will have a large percentage of undeliverables–and unfortunately, some mismatches and some misnotifications.

    1976, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Oversight, Collection of Delinquent Taxes by Internal Revenue Service, page 256

    Relief Measure in the case of Misnotification on Method of Filing Dissatisfaction

    1989, Korea Customs Law and Regulations, page 258

    Publicly, in a letter to local authorities, Pepco President William Sim blamed at least some of the company's woes on its new automated answering system and said his company had identified and corrected the cause of the customer misnotification.

    2004, Public Utilities Fortnightly, page 64

Origin

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APA

misnotification. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misnotification

MLA

“misnotification.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misnotification. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “misnotification,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misnotification.

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