misfile

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to put a document, record, or digital item in the wrong place or under the wrong classification

   A clerk had misfiled the application under the applicant's middle name.

Formed from mis- ("wrongly, badly") + file. The verb file developed from the practice of threading papers on a file, a wire or string used to keep documents in order; to misfile something is to place it in that ordering system incorrectly.

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