Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To enter erroneously or by mistake: as, to
misenter items in an account.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To enter or insert wrongly, as a charge in an account.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
enter orinsert wrongly.
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
mis- + enter
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Examples
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Moral of the story: Although I'd repeatedly asked to confirm the flight information and said "tomorrow" probably 20 times, all it takes is a slip of the finger to misenter a date.
Alison Stein Wellner: Surviving Stuck at the Airport: A Las Vegas Parable 2009
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