What is another word for underpay?

Pronunciation: [ˌʌndəpˈe͡ɪ] (IPA)

There are several synonyms for the word "underpay," which means to pay someone less than they deserve for their work. These include "shortchange," "short-pay," and "lowball." "Shortchange" refers to paying someone an insufficient amount of money, while "short-pay" is similar but implies deliberate exploitation. "Lowball" is a term used when an employer gives an employee less than their realistic value, often with a view to increasing profits. Other synonyms include "cheat," "defraud," "stiff," and "rip off." These words all suggest that the employee is being unjustly treated and that their employer is not valuing their work correctly.

What are the hypernyms for Underpay?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
  • Other hypernyms:

    undervalue, shortchange, Cheat employees out of their wages, Discriminate against workers, Neglect to fairly reward employees, Pay below the standard rate, Undercompensate.

What are the hyponyms for Underpay?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.
  • hyponyms for underpay (as verbs)

    • possession
      pay.

What are the opposite words for underpay?

Underpay refers to a situation where an employee gets paid less than the standard salary for their job. Some antonyms for underpay include overpay, fairly paid, justly compensated, and well-remunerated. Overpay means to pay someone more than they deserve or their job's worth. Justly compensated implies that an employee is receiving the correct amount of pay for their skills and work. Fairly paid means at par with other employees in their industry or field, and well-remunerated suggests that an employee is being paid generously for their job. These antonyms highlight the importance of fair compensation in the workplace and how it affects employee motivation and retention.

What are the antonyms for Underpay?

Usage examples for Underpay

Which is better, to underpay them, treat them like cattle, fill them with just hatred of unjust discrimination, or give them a chance to be men?
"Editorials-from-the-Hearst-Newspapers"
Brisbane, Arthur
Finally they declare that though to rob and pill with your own hand on horseback and in steel coat may have been a good life, to rob and pill by the hands of the policeman, the bailiff, and the soldier, and to underpay them meanly for doing it, is not a good life, but rather fatal to all possibility of even a tolerable one.
"Bernard Shaw's Preface to Major Barbara"
George Bernard Shaw
Well, for one thing, the reason he gave Putney for giving up his luxuries here: that as long as there was hardship and overwork for underpay in the world, he must share them.
"Annie Kilburn A Novel"
W. D. Howells

Famous quotes with Underpay

  • A fifty-seven-year-old college professor expressed it this way: "Yes, there's a need for male lib and hardly anyone writes about it the way it really is, though a few make jokes. My gut reaction, which is what you asked for, is that men—the famous male chauvinist pigs who neglect their wives, underpay their women employees, and rule the world—are literally slaves. They're out there picking that cotton, sweating, swearing, taking lashes from the boss, working fifty hours a week to support themselves and the plantation, only then to come back to the house to do another twenty hours a week rinsing dishes, toting trash bags, writing checks, and acting as butlers at the parties. It's true of young husbands and middleaged husbands. Young bachelors may have a nice deal for a couple of years after graduating, but I've forgotten, and I'll never again be young! Old men. Some have it sweet, some have it sour.
    Herb Goldberg

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