misnotification

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English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ notification.

Noun

misnotification (countable and uncountable, plural misnotifications)

  1. The act of misnotifying.
    • 1976, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Oversight, Collection of Delinquent Taxes by Internal Revenue Service, page 256:
      One of them is the question of notifying this large mass of people as to whom no field referrals were made–as to whom there is no systemic linkage and as to whom we will have a large percentage of undeliverables–and unfortunately, some mismatches and some misnotifications.
    • 1989, Korea Customs Law and Regulations, page 258:
      Relief Measure in the case of Misnotification on Method of Filing Dissatisfaction
    • 1992, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Investigations, Friendly Fire/casualty Notification Procedures, page 135:
      So there was no misnotification as far as that goes.
    • 2004, Public Utilities Fortnightly, page 64:
      Publicly, in a letter to local authorities, Pepco President William Sim blamed at least some of the company's woes on its new automated answering system and said his company had identified and corrected the cause of the customer misnotification.