Definition of "underpay" []

• To pay insufficiently or less than is deserved. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The Feds will also underpay for hospital services causing hospitals to go under, and when we all cry about our lost hospitals, the Feds will take them over for us, saving us again."
• "But NAY, surely it is more efficient to underpay and overwork a never-ending parade of increasingly burned-out and jaded devotees of the written word — specifically, 23-year-old English majors from the liberal arts colleges of the Northeast and, occasionally, the Midwest?"
• "Critics charge that a public option would push private insurers out of the market and underpay providers."