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(business) 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.
If the boni and mali do not depend on the frequency of claims, the average bonus-malus coefficient increases with the frequency.
2008, Henner Gimpel, Nicolas R. Jennings, Gregory E. Kersten, Axel Ockenfels, Christof Weinhardt, Negotiation, Auctions, and Market Engineering: International Seminar, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, November 12-17, 2006, Revised Selected Papers, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 62:
Bidders with inferior quality, higher transport costs or additional switching costs receive a Malus which decreases their bid automatically to incorporate the disadvantages. Bonus Malus Auctions are used by about 50% of all companies.
2014, Akmal Akramkhanov, Bernhard Tischbein, Usman Khalid Awan, “Effective management of soil salinity – revising leaching norms”, in John P. A. Lamers, Asia Khamzina, Inna Rudenko, Paul L. G. Vlek, editors, Restructuring Land Allocation, Water Use and Agricultural Value Chains: Technologies, Policies and Practices for the Lower Amudarya Region, V & R unipress, Bonn University Press, →ISBN, page 131:
Akramkhanov et al. (2010) also suggested a system of boni and mali on taxes to support the implementation of measures to achieve both water saving and salinity control (Table 3.3.1).
2016, David Aveiro, Robert Pergl, Duarte Gouveia, Advances in Enterprise Engineering X: 6th Enterprise Engineering Working Conference, EEWC 2016, Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal, May 30-June 3 2016, Proceedings, Springer, →ISBN, page 26:
If both the estimated payment- and checking-rate is not above a threshold in a district, the contracted party will receive a malus for that district, and no bonus for any other district.
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, page 305:
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 and the user gets retained in the same level.
Usage notes
May occur in financial services in connection with defaulted loans.
Sometimes used in reference to games as a negative counterpart to "bonus".
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.
Malus ‘Dartmouth’ is a variety of M. pumila, the wild crab-apple, and is only one of the several maluses which offer a wider choice than the commonly planted ‘John Downie,’ lemoinei and eleyi.
1968, Agriculture in Northern Ireland, volume 43, page 290:
In gardens which are rather open and exposed, the ornamental crabs or maluses are generally less satisfactory than the cherries as flowering trees.
Originally associated with Ancient Greekμέλας(mélas, “black, dark”), but support for this is waning. Also compare Avestan𐬨𐬀𐬌𐬭𐬌𐬌𐬀(mairiia, “treacherous”) and Sanskritमल(mala, “dirtiness, impurity”)
“malus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“malus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
malus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
malus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
(ambiguous) to be broken down by misfortune: in malis iacere
(ambiguous) to be hard pressed by misfortune: malis urgeri
(ambiguous) to have a good or bad reputation, be spoken well, ill of: bona, mala existimatio est de aliquo
(ambiguous) moral science; ethics: philosophia, in qua de bonis rebus et malis, deque hominum vita et moribus disputatur
(ambiguous) to take a thing in good (bad) part: in bonam (malam) partem accipere aliquid
(ambiguous) my mind forebodes misfortune: animus praesāgit malum
(ambiguous) my mind forebodes misfortune: animo praesagio malum
(ambiguous) a guilty conscience: conscientia mala or peccatorum, culpae, sceleris, delicti
(ambiguous) to be tormented by remorse: conscientia mala angi, excruciari
(ambiguous) to bless (curse) a person: precari alicui bene (male) or omnia bona (mala), salutem
(ambiguous) from beginning to end: ab ovo usque ad mala (proverb.)
“malus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia
“malus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
“malus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
“malus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
“malus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Francis, David A. with Leavitt, Robert R. and Apt, Margaret (2008) “malus”, in The Passamaquoddy-Maliseet Dictionary, The Passamaquoddy Language Preservation Project