mistransfer

present singular third person mistransfers · participle present mistransferring · participle past mistransferred · past mistransferred

1. To transfer incorrectly.

   Until expert, they may mistransfer elemental rules but still preserve correct sentence patterns (e.g., Mouses eated honeys and milks.).

   2014, Grover J. Whitehurst, Barry J. Zimmerman, The Functions of Language and Cognition, page 270

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   Despite Japan's well deserved reputation for high quality export products, its economic system misallocates factors, under-produces, overworks, misdistributes and mistransfers goods and services.

   2013, Steven Rosefielde, Asian Economic Systems, page 182

   When the plaintiff mistransfers something of value (whether tangible or not—eg a service) to the defendant, the common law is clear that legal title passes to the defendant.

   2016, Andrew Robertson, Michael Tilbury, Divergences in Private Law

plural mistransfers

1. countableuncountableThe act of mistransferring.

   The situation is further complicated by an individual child's mistransfer of pluralization rules; for example, when the child says womans for women, he models an error for his peers, some of whom may adopt it.

   2014, Ted L. Rosenthal, Barry J. Zimmerman, Social Learning and Cognition, page 97

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   Nevertheless, the coordination with law enforcement personnel in materials of the investigatory outreach of those agencies in tracking and identifying perhaps the mishandling or mistransfer or improper possession of these agents would seem to compel an argument that those functions ought to all be coordi- nated out of the same office, does it not?

   2002, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Creating the Department of Homeland Security, page 144

   While the plaintiff cannot directly, ie independently of judicial say-so, retake the object of her mistransfer, the defendant is nonetheless powerless to prevent her from claiming its full value following a successful action in unjust enrichment.

   2016, Andrew Robertson, Michael Tilbury, Divergences in Private Law