Fail to allocate (something) efficiently or fairly.
不当分配，不公平分配
monopoly is said to misallocate resources through the restriction of output
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The poor already suffer enough, so why go after them to scrape together a few misallocated dollars?
These well-meant but counterproductive measures served mainly to misallocate the available stock of grain.
Among other problems, the corporate income tax misallocates capital between the corporate and noncorporate sectors, and the incidence of the tax - always in dispute - is perhaps more uncertain than ever.
And it is surely the case that health care expenditures are often misallocated and wasteful.
Critics who claim that the biotech food industry benefits corporate agribusiness and misallocates scientific resources will find plenty of support for their arguments here.
Just as post-disaster tax dollars are regularly misallocated, the state's disaster prevention dollars will be diverted into political pork barrels and high-profile but ineffective projects.
All too often the topline numbers look impressive, but the follow-through is weak - money is either misallocated or not spent at all.
Only then will China stop misallocating capital, the first step in creating the kind of balanced growth it says it wants.
Resources would be misallocated to relatively risky activities; the increase in accident costs would constitute social waste.
The premise is that traditional government bureaucracies systematically misallocate scarce resources.
In boardrooms across the country, but particularly in the telecommunications world, where billions of dollars had been grossly misallocated, the choice was between admitting the truth or shaving it, in hopes of muddling through.
Thus, free supply not only subsidizes the users at the expense of nonusing taxpayers; it also misallocates resources by failing to supply the service where it is most needed.
We get on a team when we can see misallocated resources and missed opportunities.
Collapsing markets are in fact part of the process of ‘creative destruction’ in which capital that has been misallocated is wiped out and the way cleared for renewed expansion.
But markets don't work properly when there are externalities; resources are misallocated, resulting in activities which are privately profitable but socially destructive.
Inflation not only raises prices, it also misallocates labor.
Judging by the increasing police harassment of adult sex workers, it seems they are misallocating resources.
But because share prices were based on distorted information, resources were misallocated.
The borrowers who misallocated their investments share responsibility for the problems with the lenders, many of them international commercial banks which provided them with the money in the first place.
In the course of the speculative cycle, resources are misallocated and financial crisis causes income, output, and employment to depart from the full employment path.
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misallocation
nounˌmɪsaləˈkeɪʃ(ə)n
He calls suburbia and the motorcar the ‘greatest misallocation of resources in history’.
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This should not be taken to imply that administrative allocations are inevitably worse - a market has costs, and if those costs exceed the value, then markets result in misallocation.
It's a misallocation of government resources in what appears to be a vendetta against homeless people.
Domestic markets in Europe suffer from a misallocation of resources that lowers consumption and standards of living, wastes human talents, and leaves many potential productivity gains unrealized.
So the question is an empirical one - and reports such as this one suggest that, at least given current technology, investing in a nationwide ballistics imaging database would be a serious misallocation of resources.