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Malus
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- 1 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."
- 2 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."
- 3 plural of malu form-of, plural
- 4 A penalty or negative thing. rare
"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."
Etymology
From Latin malus, by analogy with bonus (“additional compensation”). Doublet of mal.
From Latin mālus and translingual Malus.
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