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malinvestment

malinvestment noun: an incorrect or unwise investment.

Noun

malinvestment (countable and uncountable, plural malinvestments)

  1. An incorrect or unwise investment.
    • Action by R. B. Carman against the executors of the will of John Wightman to recover the amount due upon a mortgage, and counterclaim by defendants against R. B. Carman, James Leitch, and R. A. Pringle, for malinvestment of funds, etc.1907, The Ontario Weekly Reporter and Index-digest, volume 8, page 572
    • Even if market participants realize that price signals may be distorted, they have no good way to know what the undistorted set of prices would be, so malinvestment takes place during the boom phase of the business cycle.2014, Randal G Holcombe, Advanced Introduction to the Austrian School of Economics, page 92

Forms of malinvestment

pluralmalinvestments

Origin of malinvestment

From mal- + investment.

Questions about malinvestment

What does malinvestment mean?
Malinvestment means an incorrect or unwise investment.
What part of speech is malinvestment?
Malinvestment is a noun.
What is the plural of malinvestment?
The plural of malinvestment is malinvestments.

Words near malinvestment in the dictionary

  1. malintent
  2. malintention
  3. malinvest
  4. malinvested
  5. malinvesting
  6. malinvestment
  7. malinvestments
  8. malinvests
  9. Malipo
  10. malis
  11. Maliseet

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