misallocation

American  

[mis-al-uh-kay-shuhn] / ˌmɪsˌæl əˈkeɪ ʃən /

noun

• misallocations
  plural

1. the act of improperly allocating something, such as funds, labor, or other resources.

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Noun Inflected Forms

• misallocations
  plural

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misallocation misallocations

Also read: Big Tech’s $700 billion spending on AI this year is called the ‘greatest capital misallocation in history’

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026

We tolerate misallocation because we are purchasing something other than objects: reassurance, attention, belonging—a ritualized way of saying you matter to me and I am willing to incur a cost to prove it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025

While capital misallocation is inevitable and there will be winners and losers, the long-term innovation cycle remains intact.

From Barron's ● Nov. 15, 2025

Cities are often portrayed as unfriendly to families because of the shortage of family-sized units, but this data suggests that the problem may be more with a misallocation of those units than with their number.

From Slate ● Nov. 27, 2024

Their impact is to slow down the economic process through disinformation and the resulting misallocation of resources.

From After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Samuel Vaknin

Schumpeter’s fellow Austrian Ludwig von Mises noted that credit expansions and booms lead to misallocations of cash.

From BusinessWeek ● Nov. 11, 2011

The Austrian School of economics, of which Mises is the modern father, called such misallocations “malinvestment and overconsumption.”

From BusinessWeek ● Nov. 11, 2011