Definition of "misallocate"

misallocate

verb
third-person singular simple present misallocates, present participle misallocating, simple past and past participle misallocated
1. (transitive) To allocate incorrectly or inappropriately.
  Quotations
  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.
  2007 March 14, Timothy Williams, “Ex-Leaders of Bronx Charity Avoid Prison in Fraud Case”, in New York Times‎
  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.
  2009, Steven Rosefielde, Red Holocaust, page 240
  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.
  2013, Steven Rosefielde, Asian Economic Systems, page 182