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- noun An incorrect or unwise
investment
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Examples
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As Mr. Roberts concedes, our current economic crisis was precipitated by a decade of monetary mismanagement that caused misinvestment throughout the economy.
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In the past, there had been a terrible misinvestment of capital that diverted a great flood of money into a seemingly attractive industry.
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In order to make agriculture work in the fight against poverty, African governments and donors must reverse years of policy neglect and remedy their underinvestment and misinvestment in agriculture.
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But not wasting money in screens that substitute blackboards or handbooks for doing exactly the same things: this is a misinvestment.
ICTlogy 2009
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And though I don’t have descendents, if I did I’d rather leave them an unknown damage than a known damage by inflicting them with more taxes and misinvestment.
Christopher Monckton: Apocalypse Cancelled « Climate Audit 2006
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