mistransfer

English

Etymology

Verb

mistransfer (third-person singular simple present mistransfers, present participle mistransferring, simple past and past participle mistransferred)

To transfer incorrectly.
- 2013, Steven Rosefielde, Asian Economic Systems, page 182:
  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.
- 2014, Grover J. Whitehurst, Barry J. Zimmerman, The Functions of Language and Cognition, page 270:
  Until expert, they may mistransfer elemental rules but still preserve correct sentence patterns (e.g., Mouses eated honeys and milks.).
- 2016, Andrew Robertson, Michael Tilbury, Divergences in Private Law:
  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.

Noun

mistransfer (countable and uncountable, plural mistransfers)

The act of mistransferring.
- 2002, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Creating the Department of Homeland Security, page 144:
  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?
- 2014, Ted L. Rosenthal, Barry J. Zimmerman, Social Learning and Cognition, page 97:
  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.
- 2016, Andrew Robertson, Michael Tilbury, Divergences in Private Law:
  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.