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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Inaccurate aim.
  2. n. Incorrect instructions or directions.
  3. n. Law An error made by a judge in charging a jury.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The act of misdirecting, or the state of being misdirected; wrong direction; an erroneous indication, guidance, or instruction: as, the misdirection of a letter; a judge's misdirections to the jury.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An act of misleading, of convincing someone to concentrate in an incorrect direction.
  2. n. UK, law An error of law within a judgement committed by a judge or judges of a lower court, particularly as found by an appeals court

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The act of directing wrongly, or the state of being so directed.
  2. n. (Law) An error of a judge in charging the jury on a matter of law.
  3. n. The direction of another's attention to an unimportant place or matter, for the purpose of being able to perform an action undetected.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. management that is careless or inefficient
  2. n. incorrect directions or instructions
  3. n. the act of distracting; drawing someone's attention away from something
  4. n. an incorrect charge to a jury given by a judge

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