underpay
verbEtymology From under- + pay.
1
To pay (someone) less than the value of their work; to pay (someone) insufficiently.
- The company-city subgenre always seemed to star a hero who outsmarted, overthrew, or escaped "the company." I've never seen one where the hero fought like hell to get taken in and underpaid by the company.1993, Octavia Butler, chapter 11, in The Parable of the Sower:
- In their Position Paper, respondents averred that they were underpaid their daily wage, overtime work pay and 13th month pay.2020 July 28, Supreme Court of the Philippines, MARBY FOOD VENTURES CORPORATION, MARIO VALDERRAMA, AND EMELITA VALDERRAMA, PETITIONERS, VS. ROLAND DELA CRUZ, GABRIEL DELA CRUZ, JOSE PAULO ANZURES, EFREN TADEO, BONGBONG SANTOS, MARLON DE RAFAEL, CRIS C. SANTIAGO, ELMER MARANO, ARMANDO RIVERA, AND LOUIE BALMES, RESPONDENTS., FIRST DIVISION [ G.R. No. 244629, July 28, 2020 ]:
2
To pay less than is due for (something).
- The underpaid letter was returned to the sender.
- Derived terms
- underpayer