miscollate

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ collate.

Verb

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

1. To collate incorrectly.
   • 1992, American Printer - Volume 209, page 82:

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

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

     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.

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

     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.

   • 2018, Alan Flitcroft, A Scrapbook for Summer:

     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.

Anagrams

• collimates, local times