misfilev.
/ˌmɪsˈfʌɪl/, U.S. /ˌmɪsˈfaɪl/ transitive. To file in the wrong place.
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society > communication > record > written record > arrangement and storage of written records > arrange and store written records [verb (transitive)] > file wrongly
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1912 Sheboygan (Wisconsin) Press 27 July A mere slip of a ten-dollar-a-week girl had tied up a big deal involving tens of thousands of dollars by misfiling an important letter.
1920 Kansas City (Missouri) Star 2 Nov. 16/6 Nor has there been a single letter lost or misfiled.
1938 Amer. Hist. Rev. 43 967 These documents have now been discovered, usually misfiled.
1975 Jrnl. Library Automation July 229 Another block of 0.9 percent of the title entries will be completely misfiled by the use of a simple table lookup approach.
1992 Accountancy Nov. 62 The advantages of a DIP system are that images—unlike paper documents—do not have to be physically moved around the office..,and they cannot be lost, misfiled or damaged in the way that paper can.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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