misallocate

present singular third person misallocates · participle present misallocating · participle past misallocated · past misallocated

1. transitiveTo allocate incorrectly or inappropriately.

   Despite Japan's well deserved reputation for high quality export products, its economic system misallocates factors, under-produces, overworks, misdistributes and mistransfers goods and services.

   2013, Steven Rosefielde, Asian Economic Systems, page 182

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   After a two-year investigation by the city’s Department of Investigation, the two men admitted their roles in stealing or misallocating nearly $1.2 million, including an $875,000 payment to a radio network, Air America, that had been concealed from the charity’s board of directors.

   2007 March 14, Timothy Williams, “Ex-Leaders of Bronx Charity Avoid Prison in Fraud Case”, in New York Times

   It misdesigned goods, adversely selected technologies, misallocated and misremunerated factors of production, encouraged work to rule, underproduced, misdistributed outputs and was subject to a myriad of moral hazards.

   2009, Steven Rosefielde, Red Holocaust, page 240