Meaning

To enter a check mark inaccurately..

Definitions by Sense

1. To enter a check mark inaccurately.
2. To fail to inspect accurately.
3. To incorrectly mark an item when it is checked so that it does not go to the right place or is not returned to the correct person.
4. A check mark that was made inaccurately.
5. A check pattern that has an error in it.
6. An instance of checking or inspecting that was inaccurate.

Example Sentences

Naturally, especially when they first join the Knighthood, some children who have always been careless about the truth will continue to be so and will mischeck their charts.

The June 1975 form had the Indefinite box checked; the January 1976 had the Never box checked. The checking of these boxes is not significant enough to deny benefits and could equally be mischecked by a nurse or secretary in the doctor's office.

[…] however, given the rapid return to report levels preceeding^([sic]) the spike it is believed those subjects may have mischecked their questionnaires.

This is the second squadron pay roll you've mischecked today.

Perpetual inventory records are meaningless if a clerk mischecks the merchandise or places the wrong item code number on the receiving ticket.

Each driver checks the tonnage on his truck; sometimes, though, he either mischecks it or will lose a piece or unload it in the wrong place.

Suspicions were excited by our baggage, especially one, a strange trunk, mischecked as Mrs. Numan, at Macon.

I may state that to add to our discomforts in a new place, the Northern Pacific Railroad mischecked our Saratoga trunk, containing all my wife's apparel, that of my little girl and some of my own, besides articles of peerless worth to ourselves, and had it not been for Mrs. Moore's (Helena) generosity and self-denial, I am sure my wife would not have been alive to-day.

Word Forms

• mischecks
• mischecking
• mischecked

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