misprovide

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verb

To provide badly or wrongly.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

verbmisprovide (third-person singular simple present misprovides, present participle misproviding, simple past and past participle misprovided)

present singular third person misprovides · participle present misproviding · participle past misprovided · past misprovided

  1. intransitiveTo provide badly or wrongly.

    On the other hand, the contractor may have deliberately taken no action, or have continued to misunderstand/misprovide the service under examination.

    2016, Lori Keating, Performance Auditing of Public Sector Property Contracts, page 93

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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

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