Usually means: Receiving less than deserved compensation.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word underpaid:

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  1. underpaid: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. underpaid: Merriam-Webster
  3. underpaid: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. underpaid: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. underpaid: Collins English Dictionary
  6. underpaid: Vocabulary.com
  7. Underpaid, underpaid: Wordnik
  8. underpaid: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. underpaid: Wiktionary
  10. underpaid: Dictionary.com
  11. underpaid: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. underpaid: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  Getting too little financial compensation for one's work.

Similar:
malemployed, undervalued, underpunished, underpitched, underhanded, lowball, loss-making, undermedicated, undersize, misappreciative, more...

Opposite:
overpaid, well-compensated, well-paid

Types:
minimum wage, living wage, poverty wage, more...

Phrases:
underpaid laborer, more...

Adjectives:
much, whole, present, poor, thousandfold



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Similar:
malemployed, undervalued, underpunished, underpitched, underhanded, lowball, loss-making, undermedicated, undersize, misappreciative, more...

Opposite:
overpaid, well-compensated, well-paid

Types:
minimum wage, living wage, poverty wage, more...

Phrases:
underpaid laborer, more...

Adjectives:
much, whole, present, poor, thousandfold



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