mistabulate
mistabulate verb: to tabulate incorrectly.
Verb
mistabulate (third-person singular simple present mistabulates, present participle mistabulating, simple past and past participle mistabulated)
- To tabulate incorrectly.
- To illustrate, should the machine operator mistabulate the amount of $534.28, and start writing in the tens of dollars column, the keys automatically lock upon attempting to write "4."1929, Harry Gregory Schnackel, Henry Carlton Lang, Accounting by Machine Methods, page 35
- These pressures might lead them, in Conk's view, to deliberately mistabulate the enumerators' records, biasing the published occupation figures to show fewer women in "men's" ccupations and fewer children at work.1995, Susan B. Carter, Richard Sutch, Fixing the Facts: Editing of the 1880 U.S. Census of Occupations with Implications for Long-term Trends and the Sociology of Official Statistics, page 33
Forms of mistabulate
| third-person singular present | mistabulates |
|---|---|
| present participle | mistabulating |
| past participle | mistabulated |
| past | mistabulated |
Origin of mistabulate
From mis- + tabulate.
Questions about mistabulate
- What does mistabulate mean?
- Mistabulate means to tabulate incorrectly.
- What part of speech is mistabulate?
- Mistabulate is a verb.
- What is the past tense of mistabulate?
- The past tense of mistabulate is mistabulated.
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