UNDERPAY (underpaid)

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

IPA (US):

Irregular inflected form: underpaid

Dictionary entry overview: What does underpay mean?

• UNDERPAY (verb)
The verb UNDERPAY has 1 sense:

1. pay too little

Familiarity information: UNDERPAY used as a verb is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• UNDERPAY (verb)

Conjugation:

Present simple: I / you / we / they underpay

... he / she / it underpays

Past simple: underpaid

Past participle: underpaid

-ing form: underpaying

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pay too little

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "underpay" is one way to...):

pay (give money, usually in exchange for goods or services)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s PP

Antonym:

overpay (pay too much)

Derivation:

underpayment (the act of paying less than required)

Context examples

I know, dear Sagittarius, but the truth is, the universe knows you’ve been underpaid for your talents for a long time, and in 2020, the universe is about to make a correction on your behalf.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

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