Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To pay insufficiently or less than is deserved.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To pay insufficiently: as, underpaid employees.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To pay inadequately.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
pay someoneless than thevalue of theirwork .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb pay too little
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Examples
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Argentero plays Mattia, an arrogant Italian stud who, as a building contractor, is always trying to shortchange clients on the materials he uses, skirt safety regulations, and underpay undocumented laborers.
George Heymont: A Chaotic Cornucopia of Culinary Cinema (VIDEOS) George Heymont 2010
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Argentero plays Mattia, an arrogant Italian stud who, as a building contractor, is always trying to shortchange clients on the materials he uses, skirt safety regulations, and underpay undocumented laborers.
George Heymont: A Chaotic Cornucopia of Culinary Cinema (VIDEOS) George Heymont 2010
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Still, critics charge that Medicare rates underpay providers (doctors and hospitals), forcing them to “make up the shortfall in the prices they charge private insurers, effectively subsidizing Medicare.”
Wonk Room » Rockefeller’s Public Plan Outline Relies On Medicare Plus Rates 2009
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Argentero plays Mattia, an arrogant Italian stud who, as a building contractor, is always trying to shortchange clients on the materials he uses, skirt safety regulations, and underpay undocumented laborers.
George Heymont: A Chaotic Cornucopia of Culinary Cinema (VIDEOS) George Heymont 2010
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According to Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr ., the companies did not keep any of the illicit funds they collected from clients, but instead held it and transferred it to Lehr by allowing Lehr to underpay them on future jobs guaranteed to them by Lehr.
Subcontractors Charged in Scheme Tamer El-Ghobashy 2011
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Critics charge that a public option would push private insurers out of the market and underpay providers.
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But NAY, surely it is more efficient to underpay and overwork a never-ending parade of increasingly burned-out and jaded devotees of the written word — specifically, 23-year-old English majors from the liberal arts colleges of the Northeast and, occasionally, the Midwest?
Archive 2009-10-01 2009
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The Feds will also underpay for hospital services causing hospitals to go under, and when we all cry about our lost hospitals, the Feds will take them over for us, saving us again.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » But What Happens if People Actually Change Their Behavior? 2010
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But NAY, surely it is more efficient to underpay and overwork a never-ending parade of increasingly burned-out and jaded devotees of the written word — specifically, 23-year-old English majors from the liberal arts colleges of the Northeast and, occasionally, the Midwest?
Special Guest Post: Publishing Industry Evisceration Edition!!!! 2009
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By obscuring financial problems, they may underpay bondholders.
Cities Hit as Funds From Bonds Pay Other Bills Ianthe Jeanne Dugan 2011
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