miscollate

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verb

To collate incorrectly.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

verbmiscollate (third-person singular simple present miscollates, present participle miscollating, simple past and past participle miscollated)

present singular third person miscollates · participle present miscollating · participle past miscollated · past miscollated

  1. To collate incorrectly.

    They are available in eight colors, reverse collated in pairs, and reportedly will not miscollate in copiers.

    1992, American Printer - Volume 209, page 82
    3 more examples

    It ended by taking another six months of hair pulling, phone calls, and tons of antacid as pages were lost, copies miscollated, and various bindings and slip cases tried and rejected.

    2004, Tony Hillerman, Ernie Bulow, Ernest Franklin, Talking Mysteries: A Conversation with Tony Hillerman, page 21

    GW 2672's description, though based on the physical examination of three copies, clearly overlooks what Schreiber had stated clearly in 1902, that these are double-page blocks: it treats each individual page as a Holzschnitt and miscollates the first four leaves.

    2009, Peter W. Parshall, The Woodcut in Fifteenth-century Europe, page 74

    On one infamous occasion, a graduate trainee who miscollated a pile of photocopying was bollocked so mercilessly by Andrea in the middle of our open-plan floor that he was last seen running down Fleet Street in tears.

    2018, Alan Flitcroft, A Scrapbook for Summer

Origin

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