Misdirection

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  • noun. Inaccurate aim.
  • noun. Incorrect instructions or directions.
  • noun. An error made by a judge in charging a jury.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of misdirecting, or the state of being misdirected; wrong direction; an erroneous indication, guidance, or instruction: as, the misdirection of a letter; a judge's misdirections to the jury.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of directing wrongly, or the state of being so directed.
  • noun. An error of a judge in charging the jury on a matter of law.
  • noun. The direction of another's attention to an unimportant place or matter, for the purpose of being able to perform an action undetected.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An act of misleading, of convincing someone to concentrate in an incorrect direction.
  • noun. An error of law within a judgement committed by a judge or judges of a lower court, particularly as found by an appeals court
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. management that is careless or inefficient
  • noun. incorrect directions or instructions
  • noun. the act of distracting; drawing someone's attention away from something
  • noun. an incorrect charge to a jury given by a judge
  • Word Usage
    "Other than as pure misdirection from the better known gas and/or carbon taxes, the VMT is about getting people to drive less, regardless of what they drive."
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