What's the difference between missend and misspend?
Missend
Definition:
(v. t.) To send amiss or incorrectly.
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Misspend
Definition:
(v. t.) To spend amiss or for wrong purposes; to aquander; to waste; as, to misspend time or money.
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(1) Japan has been stung by its third political scandal in a week after the country’s new industry minister - whose predecessor resigned over allegations of misspending - admitted that his staff had spent office money at a sex bar.
(2) He'll be covering Friday's Occupy inquiry into the effect of the legal aid bill on squatters and Saturday's mock trial of RBS for fraud and the misspending of public funds, on his blog LegalCheek.com
(3) Despite recent controversy over the electoral registration of his new house in Stoke and allegations of misspending of European parliament funds, Nuttall declared himself confident he could win the seat in a byelection on 23 February.
(4) The public probably don’t see it but she has sheaves of handwritten notes.” The historical role of the PAC has been to dig into misspending by Whitehall, such as the tagging scandal that saw G4S and Serco charging for dead offenders (“Shocking complacency”, said Hodge).
(5) Osborne would do well to study Labour's law and order misspending.