double dipping
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- noun
- /ˈdʌbəl ˈdɪpɪŋ/
- Literature
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doble percepción
- The judge essentially said that subs (unlike contracted full-time teachers) don't get paid unless they work, so UI benefits during summer school are not, in their case, "double-dipping."
Examples
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There is a gnawing uncomfortable feeling I have that the great fiscal precipice looming after December 31st could result in a decrease in GNP of 4%, accompanied by a recession, a double-dip recession.
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The city council implemented stricter regulations to prevent double dipping among municipal workers who were drawing government salaries while receiving pensions.
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Just get rid of all double dipping.
Blog text (29) -
He explained that California UI benefits for school employees are based on FUTA (Federal Unemployment Tax Act), which was written to "ameliorate the suffering from unemployment" and also to prevent full-time teachers from "double-dipping" during summer vacation because they get paid for the entire year even though they only work ten months.
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To avoid conflicts of interest, the new policy prohibits double dipping, ensuring that employees cannot collect both a salary and a pension simultaneously.
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Her role requires transparency, especially to avoid double dipping, as she cannot receive compensation from two government sources at once.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The constituents 'double' (twice) and 'dip' (to take/use) transparently suggest the general idea of taking or using something twice, so a learner could guess a sense of 'using twice'. However, the specific technical meaning in statistics/data science—reusing the same data for both training and evaluation causing biased estimates—is domain-specific and not fully predictable from the parts alone, so it is only partially transparent.
Etymology
Double dipping paints a simple picture: someone taking a second dip into the same money pot to take two portions. That's why the phrase means 'to get paid twice from the same source'.