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What is the adjective for underpayment?

What's the adjective for underpayment? Here's the word you're looking for.

Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb underpay which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

underpaid
  1. getting too little financial compensation for one's work
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  3. Examples:
    1. “As long as there are fast food chains, there will always be underpaid and overworked line staff.”
      “Either way, many students are sucked into the workforce at entry-level posts, grumbling that they're overqualified and underpaid.”
      “With its over-educated, overworked, underpaid legions, publishing is an industry bedevilled by pessimism.”
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