mistransact

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ transact

Verb

mistransact (third-person singular simple present mistransacts, present participle mistransacting, simple past and past participle mistransacted)

1. To transact badly.
   • 1956, Southwest Shippers Advisory Board, Proceedings of the Regular Meeting, page 22:

     The Santa Fe Railroad is not a bunch of stockholders who meet every now and then to transact or mistransact their business, but it's the individual I meet.

   • 1986, Lawrence A. Bloom, Facilitating Communication Change, page 112:

     she finds that the earliest developmental levels have been mistransacted.

   • 1990, The Journal of Legal Studies - Volume 19, page 782:

     The literature surveyed in Noll and Krier suggests that A and B might "mistransact" from the standpoint of their own interests because they process certain kinds of information in counterproductive ways.