1. 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.