underpayment

An insufficient payment

Noun

  1. An insufficient payment
  2. The act of making such a payment
  3. The amount by which a payment is insufficient

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí Proto-Indo-European *-ér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér Proto-Germanic *under Proto-West Germanic *undar Old English under- Middle English under- English under- English payment English underpayment From under- + payment.

Forms

underpayments