misuser
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
misuser (plural misusers)
- A person who misuses something.
- c. 1812, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Friend:
- Wretched misusers of language.
- 2009 February 28, Alan Travis, “Scheme to dock benefits of offenders defaulting on sentences is wound up”, in The Guardian:
- He said that lessons from the pilots would be carried forward into the plan to dock the benefits of drug misusers who failed to attend for job interviews.
- (law) unlawful use of a right; use in excess of, or varying from, one's right[1]
Translations edit
person who misuses something
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References edit
- ^ John Bouvier (1839) “MISUSER”, in A Law Dictionary, […], volumes II (L–Z), Philadelphia, Pa.: T. & J. W. Johnson, […], successors to Nicklin & Johnson, […], →OCLC.
- “misuser”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.