From the OED:
A figure of speech in which there is an interchange of two elements of a proposition, the natural relations of these being reversed.
From Silva Rhetoricae:
Shifting the application of words. Mixing the order of which words should correspond with which others.
From a 1992 evaluation report for Berkeley’s Information School:
“There is a need to integrate and upgrade traditional librarians with the new technology.”
Hmmmmm … I’m not entirely sure it’s possible to integrate and upgrade librarians … Seems cyborgishly strange.

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