Malinvestment
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Malinvestment is a noun meaning An incorrect or unwise investment.
Meaning
An incorrect or unwise investment.
Example Sentences
It is painful for the owners of malinvestments but fast and efficient.
Even if market participants realize that price signals may be distorted, they have no good way to know what the undistorted set of prices would be, so malinvestment takes place during the boom phase of the business cycle.
Action by R. B. Carman against the executors of the will of John Wightman to recover the amount due upon a mortgage, and counterclaim by defendants against R. B. Carman, James Leitch, and R. A. Pringle, for malinvestment of funds, etc.
Word Forms
- malinvestments
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include misinvestment, misallocation, underinvestment, misuse, misemployment, misapplication.
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