What's the difference between underpay and undersay?
Underpay
Definition:
(v. t.) To pay inadequately.
Example Sentences:
(1) The universal credit would also track claimants' income monthly rather than yearly, so reducing the risk of over- or underpayment.
(2) Never knowingly undersold is a weak motto unless it includes never knowingly underpaying a workforce.
(3) Many newspapers and magazines targeted the broader--and thornier--issue of national health care reform, but narrower and no less critical issues also received play, including Medicaid underpayment, emergency department overcrowding and HIV testing for health care workers.
(4) If eBay sellers are found to be breaching UK VAT compliance rules, we will cooperate with HMRC in all cases where HMRC provides evidence of underpayment of taxes.” Amazon said sellers on its site were “independent businesses responsible for complying with their own VAT obligations”.
(5) The ruling has sweeping implications, because documented compliance with a tax system no longer guarantees a corporation that it is safe if that system is not operating properly: both Fiat and Starbucks will now likely face bills for past underpayments.
(6) You are effectively overpaying some people in some areas more than they need because the cost of living is so low, and you are underpaying people in expensive areas, leading to shortages and possibly poorer quality of teaching."
(7) Flexible mortgages Although there is no set definition for the term, a flexible mortgage is widely accepted to do the following: · Allow you to overpay by any amount without penalty, including redeeming the loan · Allow you to take payment holidays or underpay providing you have overpaid enough in advance · Allow you to borrow back on the mortgage (or drawdown) without charging However, not all flexible mortgages offer all of these features, and some are available on "regular" mortgages.
(8) A lawyer for Devyani Khobragade, the Indian diplomat who left the US last week after indictment for visa fraud and underpaying domestic staff, has asked a US judge to throw out the charges against her.
(9) Southern Cross – which is responsible for looking after 31,000 elderly residents – has announced that it will underpay its rent for the next four months as it struggles with a £230m annual rental bill.
(10) In total, £19m has been underpaid with an average individual total underpayment of £800.
(11) Is it wise to underpay a workforce that the country relies upon for its economic stability?
(12) Exploitation within this sector "bears a striking resemblance to that found in the GLA-enforced sectors: underpayment of wages, debt bondage, excessive hours, spurious deductions, dangerous and unsafe working conditions," he says.
(13) This creates the potential to underpay for patients who develop the common complication of delayed graft function.
(14) It says the best solution is to pay SMI at the rate applying to individual borrowers' mortgages, ensuring no over- or underpayments.
(15) The union said it had concerns the tax will provide a disincentive for employers to pay workers appropriately, and instead encourage a black market economy with cash-in hand wages, from dodgy contractors who underpay and exploit their workers.
(16) Russian 'troll factory' sued for underpayment and labour violations Read more Unmasked after two months in the job, Savchuk was sacked after she published articles under a pseudonym in local newspapers denouncing the “propaganda factory”.
(17) The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has failed to protect female migrant domestic workers from beatings, hunger, overwork, underpayment and forced labour, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Thursday, urging authorities in the Gulf State to end the traditional kafala visa sponsorship system, which perpetuates much of the exploitation.
(18) This sum could be put towards future energy use, and you don't want to find yourself on the opposite end of the spectrum and in debt to your supplier by underpaying.
(19) According to the International Domestic Workers Federation, employers who exploit or underpay their domestic workers make $8bn (£5.1bn) a year in illegal profits.
(20) India has ratcheted up the pressure on US diplomats in Delhi as the deadline nears for the indictment of an Indian envoy in New York charged with visa fraud and underpaying a maid.
Undersay
Definition:
(v. t.) To say by way of derogation or contradiction.