misallocation

American  

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

noun

plural

misallocations

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

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Example Sentences

But every December we collectively suspend optimization and replace it with a ritual that specializes in misallocation.

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

MacroStrategy Partnership’s headline-grabbing analysis measured total capital misallocation across all asset classes, not AI specifically.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 30, 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

The process of transition informed us that markets, left to their own devices, unregulated and unharnessed, yield market failures, anomies, crime and the misallocation of economic resources.

From The Belgian Curtain Europe after Communism by Vaknin, Samuel