misshipment

plural misshipments

1. A shipment that is misdelivered; an instance of misshipping.

   Cables accounted for only 16% of the short shipments and misshipments.

   2017, Paul Gardiner, Project Management: A Strategic Planning Approach, page 233

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   In an action for loss sustained by misshipment of freight to the wrong destination, plaintiff was entitled to testify to a statement by defendant's agent as to what the freight would be, when directions were given to ship the car to a correct destination.

   1913, Atlantic Reporter - Volumes 85-86, page 162

   L.A. Gear, which, Schilit explains, was charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission with overstating its income by including as revenue one-time credits from vendors for supplier misshipments and other sourcing troubles.

   1993 October, Janet Bodnar, “Books”, in Kiplinger's Personal Finance, volume 47, number 10, page 122

   Occasionally, as in the case of Bobby Collins, employees were not disciplined for misship ments.

   2000, United States. National Labor Relations Board, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, page 270