Usually means: Incorrect or improper uses; abuses.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. misuses: Merriam-Webster
  2. misuses: Collins English Dictionary
  3. misuses: Vocabulary.com
  4. Misuses, misuses: Wordnik
  5. misuses: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. misuses: Wiktionary
  7. misuses: Dictionary.com
  8. misuses: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. misuses: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. misuses: Legal dictionary

(Note: See misuse as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (misuse)

noun:  An incorrect, improper or unlawful use of something.
verb:  (transitive) To use (something) incorrectly.
verb:  (transitive) To abuse or mistreat (something or someone).
verb:  (transitive) To rape (a woman); later more generally, to sexually abuse (someone).
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To abuse verbally, to insult.
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