Mismail

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To mail incorrectly; to send (a letter etc.) to the wrong place. transitive

    "As the disbursing clerk, through his employees, mailed the check in accordance with the address furnished him by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, it seems that no blame can be attached to him for its mismailing."

Example

More examples

"As the disbursing clerk, through his employees, mailed the check in accordance with the address furnished him by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, it seems that no blame can be attached to him for its mismailing."

Etymology

From mis- + mail.

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