[
US
/ˈəndɝˌpeɪmənt/
]
[ UK /ˌʌndəpˈeɪmənt/ ]
[ UK /ˌʌndəpˈeɪmənt/ ]
NOUN
- the act of paying less than required
- a payment smaller than needed or expected
How To Use underpayment In A Sentence
- With a late tax return showing a tax underpayment, the mailbox rule is inapplicable.
- With an offset, you can also make underpayments and take payment holidays.
- In this study the authors propose that norms of fairness are salient to top decision makers and show that over- or underpayment of the CEO cascades down to lower organizational levels.
- Similarly, and underpayment of salary in lieu of notice would constitute a wrongful termination and have the same effect.
- Some even allow you to make overpayments, underpayments or to take payment holidays.
- The state calculated the amount of purposeful underpayment by Chevron to be $13.5 million over the thirteen years and the jury agreed.
- There is a long and ugly history of underpayments on their part as well.
- Workers can recover underpayments at an employment tribunal or the county court.
- The deals also allow overpayments and underpayments, which can be helpful around holiday times, or at periods of illness or maternity leave.
- Underpayment has always been a great incentive to dishonesty, and in 1848 we have Punch's assurance that the postmen were the worst paid of all Government employees. Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857