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short-paid

short-paid adjective: paid less than the amount owed; underpaid, especially due to clerical error, billing adjustment, or miscalculation. Also the past participle of short-pay.

Adjective

short-paid (comparative more short-paid, superlative most short-paid)

  1. (employment) Paid less than the amount owed; underpaid, especially due to clerical error, billing adjustment, or miscalculation.

Also used as

short-paid is also the past participle of short-pay.

Synonyms of short-paid

Forms of short-paid

comparativemore short-paid
superlativemost short-paid

Origin of short-paid

Formed from short-pay + -ed, parallel to shortchanged.

Questions about short-paid

What does short-paid mean?
Short-paid means paid less than the amount owed; underpaid, especially due to clerical error, billing adjustment, or miscalculation.
What part of speech is short-paid?
Short-paid is an adjective.

Words near short-paid in the dictionary

  1. short-order
  2. short-order chef
  3. short-order chefs
  4. short-order cook
  5. short-order cooks
  6. short-paid
  7. short-pay
  8. short-period
  9. short-period comet
  10. short-period comets
  11. short-range

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