misutilize

English

Alternative forms

• misutilise

Etymology

From mis- +‎ utilize.

Verb

misutilize (third-person singular simple present misutilizes, present participle misutilizing, simple past and past participle misutilized)

1. To utilize inefficiently or inappropriately.
   • 1973, Ānandamūrti, The Great Universe: Discourses on Society, page 180:

     If sadvipras are not vigilant, where there is overaccumulation man will tend to misutilize wealth by indulging in baser tendencies.

   • 1996, Baldev Singh, Self-employment Through Entrepreneurship Development, page 103:

     22.9 per cent managed to misutilize the funds—these were either untraceable (16.8 per cent) or had diverted the funds to family business (6.1 per cent), and the others (389 units) had closed down the units primarily due to managerial inadequacies and/or non-conducive environment which reflected in the lack of working capital (125 units), competition from existing units (102 units), inexperience (43 untis), non-conducive cooperation from banks (10 units), and availability of salaried jobs (37 units), etc.

   • 2003, Raymond E. Miles, Charles C. Snow, Organizational Strategy, Structure, and Process:

     Several risks, however, are associated with the Prospector strategy: the organization may overextend itself in terms of products and markets; it may be technologically inefficient; and its administrative system may, at least temporarily, underutilize and misutilize resources.

   • 2011, H S Chawla, Introduction to Plant Biotechnology:

     Thus, it is essential that for countries having tremendous biodiversity and where common practices as traditional knowledge are employed by tribal and local peoples, there must be proper documentation of information so that no one can misutilize that information for his/her own benefit.

   • 2016, Bina Fernandez, Transformative Policy for Poor Women: A New Feminist Framework, page 94:

     The back-end subsidy is another financial procedure intended to reduce corruption, since the experience of IRDP was that people tend to misutilize the subsidy when it was given up front.