"misstaple" meaning in English

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        "2": "mis",
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      "expansion": "mis- + staple",
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "mis- + staple",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "misstaples",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "misstapling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "misstapled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "misstapled",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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          "source": "w"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1965, United States. National Labor Relations Board, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, page 223",
          "text": "Additional reason for discarding the testimony to the effect that there were as many as 1,350 booklets improperly stapled, is the fact that, after first evading an answer to a question concerning an alleged statement two days after the discharge that only two hundred booklets had been misstapled, Sweren finally took the position that he did not \" think that ( he ) did (state a figure as to the number of improperly stapled booklets) because (he didn't) think that (he) knew then how many there were involved.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1987, The South Carolina Review - Volumes 20-21, page 53",
          "text": "And he has a penchant for young nurses and expensive cognac and he misstapled some poor woman's stomach.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Catherine Compton-Lilly, Erica Halverson, Time and Space in Literacy Research, page 90",
          "text": "Similarly, Rebeca's text was not only misstapled but misread as lacking coherence.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Junnosuke Masumi, Contemporary Politics in Japan, page 111",
          "text": "The draft of his speech had been misstapled.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To staple improperly."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "staple",
          "staple"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "misstaple"
}

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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mis",
        "3": "staple"
      },
      "expansion": "mis- + staple",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "mis- + staple",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "misstaples",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "misstapling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "misstapled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "misstapled",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1965, United States. National Labor Relations Board, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, page 223",
          "text": "Additional reason for discarding the testimony to the effect that there were as many as 1,350 booklets improperly stapled, is the fact that, after first evading an answer to a question concerning an alleged statement two days after the discharge that only two hundred booklets had been misstapled, Sweren finally took the position that he did not \" think that ( he ) did (state a figure as to the number of improperly stapled booklets) because (he didn't) think that (he) knew then how many there were involved.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1987, The South Carolina Review - Volumes 20-21, page 53",
          "text": "And he has a penchant for young nurses and expensive cognac and he misstapled some poor woman's stomach.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Catherine Compton-Lilly, Erica Halverson, Time and Space in Literacy Research, page 90",
          "text": "Similarly, Rebeca's text was not only misstapled but misread as lacking coherence.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Junnosuke Masumi, Contemporary Politics in Japan, page 111",
          "text": "The draft of his speech had been misstapled.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To staple improperly."
      ],
      "links": [
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          "staple",
          "staple"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "misstaple"
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