miscalculationmis‧cal‧cu‧la‧tion /mɪsˌkælkjəˈleɪʃən/ noun [countable] 
Examples
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Thesaurus- I thought if I told Mark everything, it would be OK. That was a bad miscalculation.
- The President's election defeat was the result of his own miscalculations.
- Alcohol might have played some part in this serious miscalculation.
- But on the other side of the ledger, reduced operating expenses offset the miscalculations.
- But seldom has a military miscalculation been so gross and retribution so immediate.
- Maybe she missed the channel into Angle Inlet by only a fraction of a mile, a miscalculation of gradient or degree.
- The house was, he thought, a monument to miscalculation.
- There was one jaw-dropping miscalculation after another.
- They are called: horrible blunders, astonishing lapses, incomprehensible oversights, gross miscalculations, and the like.
- This is the point at which to take a second look at the miscalculations of the census.
Longman Language Activatora bad decision that causes problems for you► mistake
Collocations something you do or decide that is not at all sensible and causes you a lot of problems: make a mistake: · My first marriage was a terrible failure. I don't want to make the same mistake again.· Don't make the mistake of underestimating your opponent.it is a mistake to do something: · It was a mistake to think that we could go on living on borrowed money.big/serious/terrible mistake: · Buying the farm was the biggest mistake of her life.learn from your mistakes (=do things better after realizing you have made mistakes): · All I can say is, I think I've learnt from my mistakes.
► miscalculation a mistake caused by planning something badly, and being wrong about the expected result: · The President's election defeat was the result of his own miscalculations.· I thought if I told Mark everything, it would be OK. That was a bad miscalculation.
► error of judgment formal a mistake caused by judging a situation or person wrongly: · In my opinion, appointing his son as chief executive was a serious error of judgment.make an error of judgment: · New, inexperienced members of staff are more liable to make errors of judgment.
► be a bad move informal if something you do is a bad move , it is a mistake because it puts you in a bad or dangerous situation: · He tried arguing with her. This was a bad move.· Perhaps her resignation wasn't such a bad move after all.it is a bad move doing something: · It was a bad move letting him come here in the first place.
► blunder a stupid mistake caused by not thinking carefully enough about what you are saying or doing, which could have very serious results: · It seems to be another public relations blunder by the government.· a series of management blundersmake a blunder: · She stopped, finally aware of the terrible blunder she had made.
► indiscretion a rather bad, silly, or immoral action by someone, especially someone in a public position - often used to make the action seem less bad: youthful indiscretion: · He dismissed his past association with racist groups as a youthful indiscretion.commit an indiscretion: · She confessed that she had committed a minor sexual indiscretion.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB► make
1a mistake made in deciding how long something will take to do, how much money you will need etc2a wrong judgment about a situation· You've made a serious miscalculation.· Orolowetsky makes no such miscalculations, but he seldom produces playing of real imagination either.