Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of misplacing, or putting in the wrong place.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of misplacing, or the state of being misplaced.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Bad
placement .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun faulty position
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Examples
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It is a fact known to every observing physician that from fifty to seventy-five percent of all women have some kind of misplacement of the genital organs and that only a comparatively small number of these suffer from local disturbances, indicating that, in most cases, misplacement alone will not create serious trouble.
Nature Cure Henry Lindlahr 1893
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Dana Conklin, community resource manager for the city's parks and recreation department, agreed, saying that time, construction and Mother Nature affected the "misplacement" of the time capsules.
unknown title 2009
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The mosaic pattern is really delicate and any kind of misplacement can ruin the look of your floors or walls.
Best Syndication - 2009
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I believe this incident highlights a misplacement in America's values.
Chase Harrison: Using Virtual Skills to Save the Real World Chase Harrison 2012
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As some of you know, the absence of apostrophes bothers me a good deal less than the misplacement of apostrophes.
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I believe this incident highlights a misplacement in America's values.
Chase Harrison: Using Virtual Skills to Save the Real World Chase Harrison 2012
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After months of unwinding where the collection came from and what to do with it, the bank wants to make amends for its historical misplacement by restoring and displaying the collection.
Cached at Huntington: Lincoln's Last-Known Check David Benoit 2011
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I would have expected such misplacement to fall much closer to abandonment rather than requiring objective proof for abandonment I would expect the requirement would be objective proof of non-abandonment.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Is It a Crime to Receive an Item That You Know Belongs to a Third Party? 2010
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The only remotely recognizable building is the phallic KOIN Center (though you can always recognize Portland itself by the misplacement of "Big Pink".)
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Forgive my arthritic misplacement of letters in that earlier post.
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