Misallocate

Quick meaning: Misallocate is a verb meaning (transitive) To allocate incorrectly or inappropriately.

Meaning

(transitive) To allocate incorrectly or inappropriately.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• misallocates
• misallocating
• misallocated

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include misassign, misdispose, misallot, misstore, misdistribute, misdeal.

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