单词 | misexpenditure |
释义 | misexpendituren. Wrong or improper expenditure; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [noun] > wrong expenditure (of time, money, etc.) misspendingc1390 misdispense1450 misspense1591 misexpense1605 misexpendinga1644 dispendium1648 misexpenditure1795 1795 A. Hamilton in Daily Advertiser (N.Y.) 20 Nov. (Suppl.) 5/3 A misexpenditure of so much money. 1846 Littell's Living Age 3 Jan. 53/1 See the evils of war, in the misexpenditure of public money [etc.]. 1914 Amer. Econ. Rev. 4 426 The individual's mis-expenditures and indulgences. 1990 Jrnl. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 85 851/2 It is a direct response to the federal interest in controlling misexpenditures of federal funds. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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