mistabulating

Verb

mistabulate (third-person singular simple present mistabulates, present participle mistabulating, simple past and past participle mistabulated)

1. 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