Every time a tax dollar is misallocated, it is a scandal.
misallocate in American English
(mɪsˈæləˌkeit)
transitive verbWord forms: -cated, -cating
to allocate mistakenly or improperly
to misallocate resources
Derived forms
misallocation
noun
Word origin
[mis-1 + allocate]mis- is a prefix applied to various parts of speech, meaning “ill,” “mistaken,” “wrong,”“wrongly,” “incorrectly,” or simply negating. Other words that use the affix mis- include: misprint, mistrial, mistrust