Translations for „misspend“ in the English » German Dictionary

mis·spend <-spent, -spent> [mɪsˈspend] VB trans

to misspend sth

etw verschwenden [o. vergeuden]

to misspend one's money

sein Geld verschwenden

to misspend one's time

seine Zeit vergeuden

Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to misspend one's time

seine Zeit vergeuden

to misspend one's money

sein Geld verschwenden

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

She is also accused of misspending state funds.

www.independent.co.uk

Those who only see issues through a prejudiced facet are misspending their energy and exacerbating others as equally polarized.

www.abc.net.au

Sometimes they make the situation worse by misspending their money.

www.independent.ie

There can be poor management, mismanagement, decision-making related to stock performance instead of getting the maximum performance out of its mining operations, overspending, misspending... you get the idea.

www.marketoracle.co.uk

Administrators have adopted the recommendations of the legislative auditor, who last month issued a scathing report that cited misspending and overspending under the previous board.

www.nola.com

In particular, he focused on misspending on federal information technology projects.

www.govexec.com

In a sector with a history of misspending, it's now crucial that such an unexpected surplus is not wasted.

www.afr.com

That honourable minister was able to misspend $50 million on parks and gazebos in his riding without so much as a sign-off or paper trail.

www.netnewsledger.com

This allows them to spend (and, often, misspend) ludicrous amounts of money acquiring talent.

www.theglobeandmail.com

The fund released 12 reports on its website earlier this month that turned up an additional $20 million of mismanagement, alleged fraud and misspending.

www.thejournal.ie