: to charge an incorrect amount of money to (someone)
The restaurant mischarged us on the dinner bill.
2
: to make an incorrect or unsubstantiated legal charge against (someone)
… his client was pleased by the verdict, maintaining he had been mischarged. Steve Lieberman
mischarge
ˈmis-ˌchärj
noun
plural mischarges
a mischarge on the invoice
Word History
First Known Use
1571, in the meaning defined at sense 2
Medical Definition
mischarge
transitive verb
mis·charge ˌmis-ˈchärj
mischarged; mischarging
: to attach an incorrect amino acid to during protein synthesis
Benzer and coworkers showed in 1962 that cysteine tRNA mischarged with alanine (Ala-tRNACys) delivers alanine to growing polypeptide chains in vitro in response to cysteine codons. David A. Tirrell, in Physical Biology: From Atoms to Science