mistransact

present singular third person mistransacts · participle present mistransacting · participle past mistransacted · past mistransacted

1. To transact badly.

   she finds that the earliest developmental levels have been mistransacted.

   1986, Lawrence A. Bloom, Facilitating Communication Change, page 112

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   The Santa Fe Railroad is not a bunch of stockholders who meet every now and then to transact or mistransact their business, but it's the individual I meet.

   1956, Southwest Shippers Advisory Board, Proceedings of the Regular Meeting, page 22

   The literature surveyed in Noll and Krier suggests that A and B might "mistransact" from the standpoint of their own interests because they process certain kinds of information in counterproductive ways.

   1990, The Journal of Legal Studies - Volume 19, page 782