misallocating
Distributing to wrong places
Misallocating is distributing resources, funds, or effort to the wrong purposes or in the wrong proportions.
The word implies error or poor judgment rather than malice: The company has been misallocating capital to declining product lines.
Government budgets are frequently accused of misallocating taxpayer money.
Unwanted discarded material
- ineffectivenessFailure to achieve results
- mismanagementIncompetent handling of responsibilities
- underutilizationInsufficient use of resources
- overallocationAssigning beyond capacity
imbalance · disproportion · maldistribution · suboptimal · redundancy · duplication · bottleneck · shortfall
Error in estimation
- misjudgmentFaulty evaluation of something
- oversightSupervision or inadvertent omission
- blunderFoolish, costly mistake
- mistakeWrong action or decision
inaccuracy · misassignment · misdistribution · miscounting · misplacement · clerical · administrative · bookkeeping
Incompetent handling of responsibilities
- misdirectingGuiding toward wrong target
- redistributionSharing out again differently
- budgetingAllocating funds systematically
- divertingAgreeably attention-stealing
squandering · misspending · apportioning · rationing · distributing · prioritizing · depleting · overcommitting
Fraudulent taking of entrusted assets
- misappropriationWrongful taking of entrusted assets
- fraudIntentional criminal trickery
- divertingAgreeably attention-stealing
- misspendingWasteful use of resources
squandering · accounting · auditing · irregularities · discrepancies · fiduciary · malfeasance · siphoning
waste
Unwanted discarded material
- ineffectivenessFailure to achieve results
- mismanagementIncompetent handling of responsibilities
- underutilizationInsufficient use of resources
overallocation · imbalance · disproportion · maldistribution · suboptimal · redundancy · duplication · bottleneck · shortfall · surplus
miscalculation
Error in estimation
- misjudgmentFaulty evaluation of something
- oversightSupervision or inadvertent omission
- blunderFoolish, costly mistake
mistake · inaccuracy · misassignment · misdistribution · miscounting · misplacement · clerical · administrative · bookkeeping · computational
mismanagement
Incompetent handling of responsibilities
- misdirectingGuiding toward wrong target
- redistributionSharing out again differently
- budgetingAllocating funds systematically
diverting · squandering · misspending · apportioning · rationing · distributing · prioritizing · depleting · overcommitting · underfunding
embezzlement
Fraudulent taking of entrusted assets
- misappropriationWrongful taking of entrusted assets
- fraudIntentional criminal trickery
- divertingAgreeably attention-stealing
misspending · squandering · accounting · auditing · irregularities · discrepancies · fiduciary · malfeasance · siphoning · skimming
- misusingabusing, mishandling, misapplying, misappropriating, misdirecting