as in to refuse
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Recent Examples of misallocate
The authors of that USC paper acknowledged that rent control is a blunt tool that can misallocate capital in housing.
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Star Tribune, 3 July 2021
Industrial policy of this sort would misallocate capital in a way that would slow the economy’s transition to a post-virus new normal.
—Glenn Hubbard, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2020
Without collaboration, companies may fail to fully consider partner capabilities and incentives in investments and so may misallocate resources.
—Daniel Pellathy and Ted Stank, WSJ, 9 July 2020
This will drastically misallocate necessary funding for services such as public health and education, harming those most vulnerable.
—Adam Eichen, The New Republic, 27 June 2019
LaMore, who was executive director of the organization, pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Sarah A.L. Merriam to conspiring to misallocate federal funds to pay his salary and to inflating invoices to obtain additional cash for himself.
—David Owens, courant.com, 16 Mar. 2018
This is not a place that can afford to misallocate hundreds of millions of dollars in educational funds.
—Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 1 Mar. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for misallocate
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The couple also worried that refusing the request would cause a major fight and possibly result in the MIL refusing to attend the wedding altogether.—
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Rhys will star as the town’s mayor, who refuses to believe the residents’ warnings.—
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The state attorney general’s office agreed Metra could withhold the report.—
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Maine governor Janet Mills and President Trump clashed in a tense exchange at the White House over the president's threat to withhold federal funds from states that allow transgender athletes to play in girls and women's sports.—
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In 2023, mortgage applications from Black borrowers were denied twice as often as those from white borrowers.—
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There’s no denying that being a member of a bridal party is a commitment.—
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Baker’s statement suggests that policy will change to disallow transgender athletes.—
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The sixth was a scrappy goal that could have been disallowed (Ibrahim Sangare might have handled the ball on the floor, replays looked inconclusive), but the seventh showed the extent to which the visitors had lost their composure.—
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Never the favorite of his party's professional advisers, Merz was twice rejected as Merkel's successor as party leader, in 2018 and 2021, before his doggedness won out in 2022.—
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When this innate drive for self-expansion is unfulfilled within the current relationship, individuals may seek it elsewhere—including through infidelity. Cheating, in this case, isn’t necessarily about rejecting a relationship but about reclaiming a lost sense of self.—
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Don’t begrudge others their micro-moments of glory.—
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At the same time, if Manning one day does don a gold jacket, no one will begrudge him — because his career will have earned him the votes to make it so.—
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The average home price in the six-county region declined 0.4% from December to $862,115 in January, according to Zillow, marking the sixth consecutive month of declines.—
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In fact, on February 13th, the day Kennedy was confirmed, President Trump issued an executive order establishing the President’s Make America Healthy Again Commission to address rising rates of chronic diseases and declining life expectancies.—
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“Misallocate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misallocate. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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