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English
Etymology
From mis- + allocate.
Verb
misallocate (third-person singular simple present misallocates, present participle misallocating, simple past and past participle misallocated)
- (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: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.
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