Definition of "misspend" [mis•spend]

• To spend improperly or extravagantly; squander: misspent the funds; misspent their youth. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The harder and more important question is why County institutions ignore early warnings, massively misspend, reward incompetence, and repeatedly prove unable to reverse dysfunction or enact even simple reforms like data sharing."
• "They were at work making money to pay the taxes that this Administration has continued to misspend."
• "Unlike the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, they haven't got millions to spend on marketing -- or misspend on lobbying, as the New York Times documented on Monday."