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to underpaid

to underpaid

1 3.6
To get less money than you should for work you do
  • verb
  • /ˌʌndərˈpeɪd/
: pagar menos de lo debido
  • On the other hand, if too little is withheld from your wages, you will likely owe more tax at the end of the year because you have underpaid the IRS.

I would call this emotional value or, you know, yeah, you might be underpaying them, who knows, right.

Examples

  • Brown has asserted that Americo-Liberians "preferred to exploit the grossly underpaid 'native man' and refused to accept the European tenets of continuous work and the social habits of self-support."

    Academic text (2004)

  • He didn't provide health insurance and underpaid his employees.

    Blog text (2)

  • But last month a man underpaid us by fifty dollars.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • I would call this emotional value or, you know, yeah, you might be underpaying them, who knows, right.

    Ryan Pineda

  • You advise overworked and underpaid Americans to "take a vacation."

    Blog text (17)

  • That doesn't mean they aren't taxpayers; it just means they never underpaid their taxes.

    Blog text (13)

  • So up until the early 2000s, record companies essentially overpaid the 9 "losing" artists and underpaid the one "winning" or hit artist through their system of advances for each album.

    Blog text (10)

  • Electoral considerations also softened the federal government's resolve in collecting taxes, and enterprises underpaid a total of 75 trillion rubles (about $15 billion) in the first six months.

    Academic text (1996)

  • If your employer summarily sacked you or underpaid you, you couldn't get a labour inspector to reinstate you or have your employer compelled by law to honour a contract. You went to the CCMA where you could get a mediator to try and reach a compromise solution.

    Blog text (28)

  • Many workers feel frustrated because they are underpaid for the long hours they put in.

Antonyms

overpaid
8 3.2

Getting more money than is fair or usual for a job

How Well-Paid

well-off
33 3.4
to underpaid
1 3.6
unpaid
32 1.7

Surface Forms

underpaid past participle
underpay infinitive
underpaying present participle
underpays third person singular

Morphology

underpaid = underpay (transparent) = under + pay + ed

This is the regular past-tense/past-participle formation of the verb 'underpay' with the productive '-ed' marker.

Etymology

The word underpaid comes from the parts under- meaning 'below' or 'not enough' and paid from the verb 'pay'. As a verb, it means to have received less money than you deserved for your work.