1. Pertaining to varied, assorted, or mixed items or ingredients: The supermarket is filled with miscellaneous foods; for example, fruit, salt, bread, vegetables, meat, etc.

Goldie had miscellaneous college expenses to take care of. She had her library fee to pay, her tuition, her room and board, and she had to buy the textbooks that she needed.

2. Referring to a manifold combination of things: Glen had a miscellaneous collection of tools available at his auto shop to repair cars.