MISDIRECTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does misdirection mean? 

• MISDIRECTION (noun)
  The noun MISDIRECTION has 4 senses:

1. an incorrect charge to a jury given by a judge

2. incorrect directions or instructions

3. management that is careless or inefficient

4. the act of distracting; drawing someone's attention away from something

  Familiarity information: MISDIRECTION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MISDIRECTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An incorrect charge to a jury given by a judge

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("misdirection" is a kind of...):

charge; commission; direction (a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Incorrect directions or instructions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("misdirection" is a kind of...):

direction; instruction (a message describing how something is to be done)

Derivation:

misdirect (lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Management that is careless or inefficient

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

misdirection; mismanagement

Context example:

he accomplished little due to the mismanagement of his energies

Hypernyms ("misdirection" is a kind of...):

direction; management (the act of managing something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "misdirection"):

screwup (the complete mismanagement or mishandling of a situation)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The act of distracting; drawing someone's attention away from something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

distraction; misdirection

Context example:

conjurers are experts at misdirection

Hypernyms ("misdirection" is a kind of...):

alteration; revision (the act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification))