mistransaction

plural mistransactions

1. uncountableThe process of mistransacting.

   There shan't be any mistransaction while I am in vogue.

   1973 ·, Mary Fay Campbell Schertz, Descendants of John and Nancy Floyd, page 251

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   If they are going to be found, they can only be found if we shift our perspective from a two-sided conflict or engagement or relationship between press and government, between politician and reporter, and look at both of them in terms of the essential third party in mistransaction, which is the public .

   1971, Congressional Record, page 25087

2. countableA transaction that does not go well; an instance of mistransacting.

   If he's our man, we know he was done in by an inner thing, an internal mistransaction.

   2009, Carlton Thurman, Caddie Esoterica, page 512

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   So far only one mistransaction has taken place out of the tens of thousands that have been made.

   1988, Microelectronics Monitor - Issues 25-28, page 40

   By endorsement, failure, and other mistransactions, Mr. Hill became reduced in circumstances, and died in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1845.

   2020, Martin Robinson Delany, The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States, page 57