misapplication
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Definition of misapplication
1 : the act or an instance of applying something incorrectly or improperly a misapplication of the law herbicide misapplication
2 : the act or an instance of misusing or spending something (such as public money) without proper authority … a bank president was convicted of misapplication after he programmed the bank's computer not to debit his personal checking account when it would otherwise have been overdrawn.— Stanley S. Arkin
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