underpaid

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Etymology

From under- +‎ paid.

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  • Rhymes: -eɪd

Adjective

underpaid (comparative more underpaid, superlative most underpaid)

  1. Getting too little financial compensation for one's work.
    I am underpaid and overworked.
    • 1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Bohemians—Tenement-house Cigarmaking”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 137:
      The accusation that he lives like the “rat” he is, cutting down wages by his underpaid labor, he throws back in the teeth of the trades unions with the counter-charge that they are the first cause of his attitude to the labor question.
    • 2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, page 38:
      Terry Gourvish, the lead author if the authorised commercial history of BR, described the new BTC structure thus: "The conclusion must be that the combination of a few undynamic railwaymen, underpaid full-timers (Commission and General Staff) and poorly-paid part-time businessmen was not a very potent managerial cocktail."

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