misallocate

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ allocate.

Verb

misallocate (third-person singular simple present misallocates, present participle misallocating, simple past and past participle misallocated)

1. (transitive) To allocate incorrectly or inappropriately.
   • 2007 March 14, Timothy Williams, “Ex-Leaders of Bronx Charity Avoid Prison in Fraud Case”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     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.

   • 2009, Steven Rosefielde, Red Holocaust, page 240:

     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.

   • 2013, Steven Rosefielde, Asian Economic Systems, page 182:

     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.

Anagrams

• malacolites