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• v  spend time badly or unwisely
• v  spend (money or other resources) unwisely

• For it was there, in the ramshackle shelter of the pool hall, on the margins of society, that one could, with luck and a certain impunity, misspend one's youth.

News & Articles

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• Jack Graham, Portland's embattled chief administrator, forced out by Mayor Charlie Hales
  Graham has been atop the city's Office of Management & Finance since 2011, but his tenure has been rocky. Whistle-blowers last year accused him of trying to misspend nearly $200,000 in restricted water and sewer money.
  Nov. 21, 2013 - The Oregonian

Quotes

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• Helen Zille in Mail & Guardian Online
  Zille said she would deal with the nepotism and bloated expenditure in the executive suites "and turn the misspend money towards employing people at the city's workface"- - policemen, engineers, firemen, librarians, nurses and health inspectors.