Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An unsuitable match or a lack of correspondence.
- transitive verb To match unsuitably or badly.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To match unsuitably, or inaccurately or unfitly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To match unsuitably.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Something that does not
match ; somethingdissimilar ,inappropriate orunsuitable . - verb To
match unsuitably; to fail to match
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a bad or unsuitable match
- verb match badly; match two objects or people that do not go together
Etymologies
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Examples
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There were liquidity and funding crises at these banks due to the term mismatch between funding and investments, but these firms' treasurers know beforehand of the mismatch and attempt to prevent these types of crises from ever occurring.
Simon Johnson on Geithner and Summers, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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My sex/gender mismatch is a completely different thing to my sexuality.
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The external debt payment for the Versailles reparations had to be paid in gold, but most of the other debt was (largely) fiat, and this mismatch is what led to the hyperinflation
Matthew Yglesias » Leveling Up or Leveling Down With China 2010
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If this mismatch is eliminated at one point in the system, it pops up elsewhere.
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My sex/gender mismatch is a completely different thing to my sexuality.
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This mismatch is especially dire for the Creature because of his necessary over-reliance on books.
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Because there's no excision going on in mismatch repair.
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The teams entered the game with the best combined record since coming in 19-0-1 in 1994, but it was a mismatch from the outset.
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This was a mismatch from the moment the selection committee paired the teams together.
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It effectively confines the aggressive use of preferences to the top tier of schools, where the academic mismatch is most benign in its effects.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Affirmative Action in Law Schools: 2004
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