misprovide

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English

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Etymology

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From mis- +‎ provide.

Verb

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misprovide (third-person singular simple present misprovides, present participle misproviding, simple past and past participle misprovided)

  1. (intransitive) To provide badly or wrongly.
    • 2016, Lori Keating, Performance Auditing of Public Sector Property Contracts, page 93:
      On the other hand, the contractor may have deliberately taken no action, or have continued to misunderstand/misprovide the service under examination.