misexchange

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ exchange

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌmɪsɪksˈt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒ/

Verb

misexchange (third-person singular simple present misexchanges, present participle misexchanging, simple past and past participle misexchanged)

1. To exchange what should not be exchanged, either in error or fraudulently
   • 2003 August, C. -W. Nan, N. Cai, L. Liu, J. Zhai, Y. Ye, Y. Lin, “Coupled magnetic–electric properties and critical behavior in multiferroic particulate composites”, in Journal of Applied Physics, volume 94, number 9:

     The E33 values at f 0.02 were misexchanged with those at f 0.08 in . -Ref. 16.

   • 2008, Elliot Kendall, Lordship and Literature, page 142:

     Virginia is 'good' for exchange only as a maid, and if she is to be misexchanged to the detriment of her father's worship, she is better destroyed, her status as empty sign preserved at the cost of all her being.

   • 2010, Thiol Redox Transitions in Cell Signaling, Part B, page 152:

     Note: the terms purity and enrichment are frequently misexchanged in the literature. Monitoring the level of a mitochondrial protein informs nothing about the purity of a mitochondrial preparation.

Noun

misexchange (countable and uncountable, plural misexchanges)

1. An exchange (any sense) that did not go as intended or that should not have occurred.
   • 1992, South Dakota Review, page 131:

     At three significant points, however, those lines cross to allow glimpses of the social misexchange that bedevils the novel's central characters.

   • 1995, Irene A. Tucker, A Probable State: The Novel, the Contract and the Jews, page 339:

     Consider the alternative scenario, implicit in the terms of this moment of misexchange: Daniel is accosted from behind by Kalonymos (although the touch would likely be miraculously transformed in this version to something more on the order of a gentle tug), who asks him who his mother is.

   • 2020, George Oppitz-Trotman, Stages of Loss: The English Comedians and Their Reception, page 94:

     In Ayrer's work, the forgetfulness of the messenger variously involves misplacement, misexchange, or unwanted transformations of materials to be delivered or procured; discovery and publication of secrets; prodigality and itinerancy.