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overpay /əʊvəˈpeɪ /verb (past and past participle overpaid) [with object]1Pay too highly: many fans think our top players are overpaid...- Australia's leading team were fined A$500,000 and demoted from first place to last in the championship standings for secretly overpaying their players.
- I'm much more of the opinion that it's better to overpay a player for a shorter contract.
- And which players are vastly overpaid, providing a minimal return on the investment their teams make?
1.1Pay (money) in excess of what is due: (as adjective overpaid) the recovery of overpaid tax...- Basically, the bargain was this: lower and middle class workers would overpay payroll taxes for a few decades, and following that the well off would overpay income taxes for a few decades.
- But many companies overpay their taxes because, by the end of the year, they have turned out smaller incomes than expected.
- That the Revenue could, if they so wished, at the press of a button also create a list of those taxpayers who have overpaid their taxes.
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