as in to mistype
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Recent Examples of misclassify
In 2013, two corporate executives were ordered to spend four to six months in jail for falsifying records to misclassify their salaries as expenses under their employer's larger bribery and fraud scheme.
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Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2024
Under the policy, the Labor Department can take action against companies that misclassify their workers.
—Tony Romm, Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2024
Labor advocates have supported the rule, saying employers have exploited lax rules to misclassify workers and avoid properly compensating them.
—Jonathan Mattise, Quartz, 21 Feb. 2024
The Labor Department said the rule would boost enforcement against businesses that misclassify workers as contractors to save money.
—Harold Maass, theweek, 10 Jan. 2024
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Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2024
Under the policy, the Labor Department can take action against companies that misclassify their workers.
—Tony Romm, Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2024
Labor advocates have supported the rule, saying employers have exploited lax rules to misclassify workers and avoid properly compensating them.
—Jonathan Mattise, Quartz, 21 Feb. 2024
The Labor Department said the rule would boost enforcement against businesses that misclassify workers as contractors to save money.
—Harold Maass, theweek, 10 Jan. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for misclassify
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Attackers register domains nearly identical to popular sites, relying on users to mistype URLs.—
Alex Vakulov,
Forbes.com,
29 Mar. 2025
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Correction: Arkansas' team ERA was initially mistyped and has been corrected.—
Matt Jones,
Arkansas Online,
7 Apr. 2025
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Even if they are increasingly getting lumped together by both the industry and consumers, their businesses are incredibly different, according to a dozen insiders working in the global independent market that talked to The Hollywood Reporter.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
12 June 2025
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She is frustrated the administration is lumping him in with others who perhaps entered the country without legal status and committed multiple crimes.—
Ximena Bustillo,
NPR,
1 June 2025
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“Misclassify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misclassify. Accessed 16 Jun. 2025.
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