misstatement
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5.8
- noun
- /ˌmɪsˈsteɪtmənt/
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declaración inexacta
- The accountant discovered a serious misstatement in the company's financial report.
- price-distorting misstatements
- misstatements and omissions
- misstatement by an issuer
These are major foreign policy misstatements that could actually lead to war.
- These are major foreign policy misstatements that could actually lead to war.
Examples
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While self-correction of this type will indeed help with regard to certain misstatements, a problem remains.
Academic text (2016) -
Now, have I made any misstatements of fact up to this point?
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The entry contains a serious misstatement that I would like to have removed.
Blog text (11) -
But mistakes are nothing compared to making an apparently deliberate misstatement of a case or rule.
Academic text (2011) -
These are major foreign policy misstatements that could actually lead to war.
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That was a misstatement.
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Higher levels of liberal choices imply higher levels of risk for misstatements.
Academic text (2004) -
Naturally, all filings with the SEC should be free from misstatements, whatever the format.
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When an issuer offers equities for sale and makes a price-inflating misstatement or omission, it receives the inflated sales price.
Academic text (2016) -
As with corporate misrepresentations and insider trading under Rule 10b-5, the misstatement or omission is actionable only if it relates to a "material fact."
Academic text (2016)
Synonyms
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1.0
A wrong belief, calculation, or action
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4.3
A statement that is not true
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5.5
A false statement
A report that gives wrong information, often by mistake
How False
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word misstatement is made of mis- meaning 'wrong' (as in mistake) and statement meaning 'something said or written'. So a misstatement is a 'wrong' or misleading statement — something said or written that is incorrect or untrue.