Usually means: Accidentally put in wrong place.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. mislay: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. mislay: Merriam-Webster
  3. mislay: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. mislay: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. mislay: Collins English Dictionary
  6. mislay: Vocabulary.com
  7. mislay: Wordnik
  8. mislay: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. mislay: Wiktionary
  10. mislay: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. mislay: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. mislay: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Mislay, mislay: Dictionary.com
  14. mislay: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. mislay: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Mislay: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. mislay: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. mislay: Rhymezone
  19. mislay: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. mislay: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. mislay: FreeDictionary.org
  22. mislay: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. mislay: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mislay: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mislay: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To leave or lay something in the wrong place and then forget where one put it.
verb:  (obsolete) To err in placing something.

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