mistransaction

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ transaction

Noun

mistransaction (countable and uncountable, plural mistransactions)

1. (uncountable) The process of mistransacting.
   • 1971, Congressional Record, page 25087:

     If they are going to be found, they can only be found if we shift our perspective from a two-sided conflict or engagement or relationship between press and government, between politician and reporter, and look at both of them in terms of the essential third party in mistransaction, which is the public .

   • 1973 ·, Mary Fay Campbell Schertz, Descendants of John and Nancy Floyd, page 251:

     There shan't be any mistransaction while I am in vogue.

2. (countable) A transaction that does not go well; an instance of mistransacting.
   • 1988, Microelectronics Monitor - Issues 25-28, page 40:

     So far only one mistransaction has taken place out of the tens of thousands that have been made.

   • 2009, Carlton Thurman, Caddie Esoterica, page 512:

     If he's our man, we know he was done in by an inner thing, an internal mistransaction.

   • 2020, Martin Robinson Delany, The Conditon, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States, page 57:

     By endorsement, failure, and other mistransactions, Mr. Hill became reduced in circumstances, and died in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1845.