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miscalendar

miscalendar verb: to enter an appointment on the wrong date in a schedule.

Verb

miscalendar (third-person singular simple present miscalendars, present participle miscalendaring, simple past and past participle miscalendared)

  1. To enter an appointment on the wrong date in a schedule.
    • Occasionally , counsel will miscalendar or simply forget about attending a judicial arbitration hearing ( Code of Civil Procedure $ 1141.10. ) and an adverse judgment occurs.2006, Eric E. Younger, Donald E. Bradley, California Motions, page 708
    • The NLRB denied an employer's request that it accept its late filed brief based on excusable neglect where the employer asserted that the reason its brief was one day later was through an "inadvertent oversight" that led it to miscalendar the due date.2006, CCH NLRB Decisions
  2. To assign the wrong date to a document.
    • Apparently a reference to the death of Charles II led the 6th baron Monson to miscalendar these letters .1989, Francis Howard Baron Howard of Effingham, Warren M. Billings, The Papers of Francis Howard, Baron Howard of Effingham, 1643-1695, page 191
    • The undated document is miscalendared, since the press occurred in spring 1639.1994, Mark Charles Fissel, The Bishops' Wars: Charles I's Campaigns Against Scotland, 1638-1640, page 233

Forms of miscalendar

third-person singular presentmiscalendars
present participlemiscalendaring
past participlemiscalendared
pastmiscalendared

Origin of miscalendar

From mis- + calendar.

Questions about miscalendar

What does miscalendar mean?
Miscalendar means to enter an appointment on the wrong date in a schedule.
What part of speech is miscalendar?
Miscalendar is a verb.
What is the past tense of miscalendar?
The past tense of miscalendar is miscalendared.

Words near miscalendar in the dictionary

  1. miscalculating
  2. miscalculation
  3. miscalculations
  4. miscalculator
  5. miscalculators
  6. miscalendar
  7. miscalendared
  8. miscalendaring
  9. miscalendars
  10. miscalibrate
  11. miscalibrated

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