misallocate

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To allocate incorrectly or inappropriately.
   • 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