What is another word for Misspending?

Pronunciation: [mɪsspˈɛndɪŋ] (IPA)

Misspending refers to the act of utilizing funds, resources, or assets in an inappropriate or unnecessary manner. There are various synonyms that can be utilized to describe this action, including the words squandering, misusing, mishandling, wasting, and dissipating. Squandering refers to the act of spending recklessly or wastefully, while misusing is the improper utilization of something designated for a specific purpose. Mishandling refers to the inadequate management or care of something, and wasting describes the unrestricted consumption of resources without regard for their value. Finally, dissipating refers to the waste or scattering of resources that have the potential for being conserved and used in a more effective way.

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What are the hypernyms for Misspending?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Misspending

It cannot be denied, that our libraries contain as many volumes of the latter, as the former description; for we rank amongst the latter that long catalogue of idle productions, which, if they produce no other evil, lead to the Misspending of time, our own perhaps included.
"Precaution"
James Fenimore Cooper
That is the hopeful nephew of my friend and neighbor, Sir Edgar Egerton; he is here dancing, and Misspending his time and money, when I know Sir Edgar gave him a thousand pounds six months ago, on express condition, he should not leave the regiment or take a card in his hand for twelvemonth.
"Precaution"
James Fenimore Cooper
Yet a while he will strive with him, he will awaken, he will convince, he will call to remembrance former sins, former judgments, the breach of former vows and promises, the Misspending of former days; he will also present persuasive arguments, encouraging promises, dreadful judgments, the shortness of time to repent in; and that there is hope if he come.
"The Works of John Bunyan Volume 3"
John Bunyan

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