misfile
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of misfile
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"If you misfile it," Roth says, the weight of experience behind him, "it's gone."
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2017
That evidence had been sitting in museum drawers, misfiled, for decades.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026
Of those, only 11 discrepancies were found that amounted to five ballots that were marked too lightly for a machine counter to read and the other six ballots being misfiled or misplaced.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 2023
According to the department, Thomas was denied a promotion because part of his personnel records, including a glowing job evaluation from the embassy in Mexico, had been accidentally misfiled.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 22, 2018
Documents were misfiled, meetings were missed, the military and the statistical ministries disagreed about who would benefit.
From Nature ● Apr. 26, 2016
That book was misfiled, on the wrong shelf.
From The Tarn of Eternity by Frank Tymon
The misfiling of his personnel records, his family suspected, may have been intentional.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 20, 2019
The FBI at times stumbled in its foray into the literary world, originally thinking the writer’s first name was José and misfiling its classified intelligence under the name José García Márquez.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 3, 2015
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