underpay
少付,少付账款,少付费用,少付款项
Definitions
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un·der·paid, un·der·pay·ing.
- : to pay less than is deserved or usual.
Examples
As always, the onus is on consumers to express dissatisfaction with companies that underpay workers, destroy the planet, and otherwise act badly until they have no choice but to respond.
Stronger governmental oversight is especially necessary during a recession, when the rate at which employers underpay their minimum-wage workers skyrockets, according to research Fine oversaw this year.
If you underpay the government, on the other hand, they charge you not only interest, but also penalties.
Steve Jobs and now Tim Cook did not conspire to undermine American labor and underpay Chinese workers.
Full of fine words and charitable speeches in favor of the poor; but apt to oppress, overwork, and underpay them.
We snub them and underpay them, we refuse them the rank due to them, and lead them a generally happy life!
It's bad business to overwork and underpay your hands into a state of chronic insurrection.
They may be forced by the competitive system, as many contend, to underpay their workmen.
The latter may underpay his servants, keep them at work all day, or take every advantage of them in every possible way.