maluses
maluses is the plural of malus.
Meaning of malus
Noun (1)
malus (plural maluses or mali)
- The loss or return of performance-related compensation originally paid by an employer to an employee as a result of the discovery of a defect in the performance.
- When bank fired the loan originator, they recovered the last two years of her bonuses under the malus clause in her contract.
- A penalty or negative thing.
- The driver game has a game screen with less number of properties and representations (see Fig. 3(a)). […] If the user completes a level within the allocated time, then the user gets a bonus and will be advanced to another level[,] and if user is unable to complete a level, then a malus is provided...2016, Rosa Bottino, Johan Jeuring, Remco C. Veltkamp, Games and Learning Alliance: 5th International Conference, GALA 2016, Utrecht, The Netherlands, December 5–7, 2016, Proceedings, Springer, →ISBN...
Noun (2)
malus (plural maluses)
- A plant of the genus Malus (the apples).
- It leads to a certain extent to an evergreen type Docynia which is distributed in the Himalayas and western China and whose magnificence of bloom I learned to know on my travels in Yunnan; it is distinct from genuine maluses.1922, Gardener’s Chronicle of America, volume 26, page 228, column 2
- Synonyms:
- apple
Questions about maluses
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- Maluses is the plural of malus.
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