"misallocate" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From mis- + allocate.",
  "forms": [
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      "form": "misallocates",
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    {
      "form": "misallocating",
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        "participle",
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    {
      "form": "misallocated",
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    },
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      "form": "misallocated",
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        "past"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "2007 March 14, Timothy Williams, “Ex-Leaders of Bronx Charity Avoid Prison in Fraud Case”, in New York Times:",
          "text": "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.",
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        {
          "ref": "2009, Steven Rosefielde, Red Holocaust, page 240:",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Steven Rosefielde, Asian Economic Systems, page 182:",
          "text": "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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        "To allocate incorrectly or inappropriately."
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          "allocate",
          "allocate"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To allocate incorrectly or inappropriately."
      ],
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        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "misallocate"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From mis- + allocate.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "misallocates",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
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      "form": "misallocating",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    {
      "form": "misallocated",
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        "past"
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    },
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      "form": "misallocated",
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        "past"
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  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "ref": "2007 March 14, Timothy Williams, “Ex-Leaders of Bronx Charity Avoid Prison in Fraud Case”, in New York Times:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2009, Steven Rosefielde, Red Holocaust, page 240:",
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          "text": "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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      ],
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        "To allocate incorrectly or inappropriately."
      ],
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        "(transitive) To allocate incorrectly or inappropriately."
      ],
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