Crossword-Solution: UNDERPAY
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Underpay | v. t. | To pay inadequately. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| UNDERPAY | anagram | UNPRAYED |
We have 8 clues for the answer “UNDERPAY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Cause to strike, perhaps | 1 answer |
| Give less than full salary to | 1 answer |
| Give less than is deserved | 1 answer |
| Shortchange, as one's salary | 1 answer |
| Stiff with the green | 1 answer |
| pay someone insufficiently | 1 answer |
| Take advantage of, in a way | 2 answers |
| Shortchange | 6 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with UNDERPAY (5)
Finally they declare that though to rob and pill with your own hand on horseback and in steel coat may have been a good life, to rob and pill by the hands of the policeman, the bailiff, and the soldier, and to underpay them meanly for doing it, is not a good life, but rather fatal to all possibility of even a tolerable one.
Men and women struggling for bare subsistence had become active competitors, till, in 1789, a general petition entitled "Petition of Women of the Third Estate to the King" was signed by hundreds of French workers, who, made desperate by starvation and underpay, demanded that every business which included spinning, weaving, sewing, or knitting should be given to women exclusively.
Clothing here, as elsewhere, is synonymous with overwork and underpay, the wage being below subsistence point; and want of training is often found to be a portion of the reason for these conditions.
And also I told them that Miss Fannie charged entirely too little for her work, and it was poor religion to go to church on Sunday and sing praises to God and underpay a poor little dressmaker.
Furthermore--and here is a deep platitude--there is many a man who sobs upon a doleful book, who to the end of time will blithely underpay his factory girls.
Quotes with UNDERPAY (1)
Some contractors force workers to provide paybacks to keep their jobs. Others intentionally misclassify workers in order to underpay them - by, for example, paying a skilled construction worker as a general laborer.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1999–2015).