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What (who) is misspend - definition
misspend
v. a.
Squander, misuse, waste, fool away, fritter away, muddle away, spend foolishly.
misspend
¦ verb (past and past participle misspent) [usu. as adjective misspent] spend (time or money) foolishly or wastefully.
Examples of use of misspend
1. Success story Over the years, this newspaper has been unsparingly critical of the way unelected, unrepresentative quangocrats misspend the Lottery money that should go to genuinely good causes.
2. Bush, arguing that it amounts to government intervention in the free market and would misspend taxpayer money to help big banks.
3. It is common knowledge that Americans are too busy to listen to an Ethiopian minister, who tends to misspend a great deal of his energy to communicate with them and other Anglophones.