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Underpay   Listen
verb
Underpay  v. t.  (past & past part. underpaid; pres. part. underpaying)  To pay inadequately.






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"Underpay" Quotes from Famous Books



... throbbing its life out on the grass, with such pity as he might have given a wounded child. I find this a fit place to say that his mind and soul were with those who do the hard work of the world, in fear of those who give them a chance for their livelihoods and underpay them all they can. He never went so far in socialism as I have gone, if he went that way at all, but he was fascinated with Looking Backward and had Bellamy to visit him; and from the first he had a luminous vision of organized labor as the only present help for working-men. He would show ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

... systematically underpay cabmen," said I, "so do they try to underpay the devil; and he is one too many ...
— The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne • William J. Locke



Words linked to "Underpay" :   pay, overpay



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