The company-city subgenre always seemed to star a hero who outsmarted, overthrew, or escaped "the company." I've never seen one where the hero fought like hell to get taken in and underpaid by the company.
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Underpay
Synonyms for "underpay" (1 found)
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Closest matches (1)
Verb(1 words)
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Translations
14 translations across 11 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- плащам недостатъчно verb (to pay someone less than the value of their work)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 付給……過低的錢 /付给……过低的钱 verb (to pay someone less than the value of their work)
- 苛扣……工資 /苛扣……工资 verb (to pay someone less than the value of their work)
Dutch
1 entries- onderbetalen verb (to pay someone less than the value of their work)
Finnish
1 entries- maksaa liian pientä palkkaa verb (to pay someone less than the value of their work)
French
1 entries- sous-payer verb (to pay someone less than the value of their work)
German
1 entries- unterbezahlen verb (to pay someone less than the value of their work)
Hungarian
1 entries- alulfizet verb (to pay someone less than the value of their work)
Italian
1 entries- sottopagare verb (to pay someone less than the value of their work)
Japanese
1 entries- 十分に払わない verb (to pay someone less than the value of their work)
Polish
2 entries- niedopłacać verb (to pay someone less than the value of their work)
- niedopłacić verb (to pay someone less than the value of their work)
Russian
2 entries- недопла́чивать verb (to pay someone less than the value of their work)
- недоплати́ть verb (to pay someone less than the value of their work)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
In their Position Paper, respondents averred that they were underpaid their daily wage, overtime work pay and 13th month pay.
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The underpaid letter was returned to the sender.
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