How to Use misallocation in a Sentence

misallocation

noun

• And there’s a lot of misallocation that goes on in this process.
  — Eric Johnson, Recode, 7 Nov. 2018
• With the passage of Obamacare, the misallocation got even worse.
  — John C. Goodman, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2021
• Is that some kind of weird misallocation of public affection and regard for the icons involved?
  — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 14 Feb. 2018
• But hell doesn’t have as many circles of dysfunction, and the root cause is the political misallocation of resources.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 14 July 2017
• Decades of capital misallocation and misuse have put China Inc. in a fix.
  — Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2019
• This has produced a world trade imbalance through the misallocation of capital and savings.
  — WSJ, 2 Apr. 2018
• Regarding the new bill, a spokesperson for the company dismissed the legislation as a misallocation of time and resources.
  — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2023
• There's just a lot of misallocation of economic resources.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2021
• As in that book, The Premonition renders the crisis of the moment as a long-gestating case study in the misallocation of policy imagination.
  — Chris Lehmann, The New Republic, 11 May 2021
• But forcing insurance companies to pay up to 20 times the retail rate for tests creates a sizable moral hazard problem and misallocation of resources that should not be ignored.
  — Cameron Kaplan, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2022
• Critics point to a misallocation of capital: Money spent on buybacks is money that isn’t invested in projects that fuel longer-term success.
  — Ryan Derousseau, Fortune, 20 Apr. 2018
• To end the misallocation of resources caused by small-business cronyism, public policy should be guided by the principle of size neutrality.
  — Robert D. Atkinson, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2018
• This biofuel profit premium is driving the sort of capital misallocation that the World Bank noted last week in a report on economic growth and inflation.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 15 June 2022
• Not all companies do or will disclose without a mandatory framework, raising the cost, or resulting in the misallocation, of capital.
  — Benjamin Zycher, National Review, 21 Apr. 2021
• The figures represent more than just a disastrous misallocation of need and want, given that 10 percent of people in the world are chronically undernourished.
  — David Segal, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2019
• In this view, the problem isn’t the American public’s veneration of the armed services above all other institutions, or the gross misallocation of resources and preemptive wars that this abets — or even the concept of a military parade, per se.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 8 Feb. 2018
• More important, though, this misallocation of resources will hurt everyday Americans who buy stocks such as Nikola.
  — Sean-Michael Pigeon, National Review, 2 Aug. 2021
• The costs of the Federal Reserve’s zero-interest policy are multiplying: The misallocation of capital—goosing the price of the riskiest and least-productive of assets—set the conditions for boom and bust.
  — Kevin Warsh, WSJ, 19 Mar. 2023
• This perverse misallocation of resources does lead to some morbidly funny outcomes.
  — Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 2 Mar. 2021
• So there is naturally going to be a misallocation of capital away from companies that may need financing.
  — Sean-Michael Pigeon, National Review, 2 Aug. 2021
• This means our amenities come with strings attached and harmful consequences, like misallocation of money or neglect of poorer communities.
  — Jillian Steinhauer, The New Republic, 22 Aug. 2022
• The misallocation of resources during the booms requires a prolonged and miserable process of reallocation during and after a recession.
  — Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2018
• Over the past decade, state auditors have discovered misallocation of funds by scores of New York preschool special education providers, including seven companies that serve yeshivas.
  — Brian M. Rosenthal, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2022
• Inaccurate counts paint a distorted picture of the makeup of our communities and result in a misallocation of resources vital to families.
  — Rebecca Tippett, Vox, 27 June 2019
• Raising taxes on business only makes that misallocation worse.
  — Casey B. Mulligan, National Review, 21 Oct. 2020
• Traveling vigilantly, only to arrive at someone’s home and act as though there is no pandemic is a serious misallocation of anxiety.
  — James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 23 Nov. 2020
• That misallocation of blame that took Strange down will soon metastasize into a vicious cycle for Republican incumbents everywhere.
  — Jim Newell, Slate Magazine, 27 Sep. 2017
• Deficit spending exacerbates the risk of government misallocation of resources.
  — Rick Miller, Forbes, 24 June 2021
• Conversations held after mass shootings typically tend to focus on background checks, but, given that mass shooters almost always pass those checks, this represents a chronic misallocation of effort.
  — The Editors, National Review, 27 May 2022
• Several subsequent Games were met with resistance and with citizens arguing against a misallocation of public resources.
  — Dvora Meyers, Longreads, 7 Aug. 2020

Last Updated: 29 Jul 2024