to underpaid
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- 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.
- I would call this emotional value or, you know, yeah, you might be underpaying them, who knows, right.
Examples
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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.
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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
How Well-Paid
Surface Forms
Morphology
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.