misallocate
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əˌkeɪt verb (used with object), mis·al·lo·cat·ed, mis·al·lo·cat·ing.
to allocate mistakenly or improperly: to misallocate resources.
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Indeed, the favorable treatment of capital gains plays a role in many tax shelters that misallocate investment.
Governments do not need any more money, and they misallocate much of what they already take from us.
But so badly did it manage risk and misallocate capital that our payments mechanism was in danger of collapse.
Excessive and ill-conceived pay encourages chief executives to overreach and misallocate resources.
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