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UNDERPAY
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Irregular inflected form: underpaid
I. (verb)
Verb forms
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)
