verb
- past tense and past participle of misfile; to file (a document or record) in the wrong place or under the wrong category
Examples
- The important contract was misfiled under the wrong client name.
- She discovered that several invoices had been misfiled in last year’s folder.
- The medical records were misfiled, causing delays in patient care.
- He accidentally misfiled the tax documents in the personal folder.
- The secretary misfiled the correspondence, making it difficult to locate later.
- After the office reorganization, many files were misfiled and had to be sorted again.