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overpay Definition

over·pay (ō′vər pā, ōvər pā′)

transitive verb, intransitive verb -·paid, -·pay·ing

  1. to pay too much, or more than (the due amount)
  2. to pay too much to (someone)

overpay Related Forms
over·pay′·ment noun
overpay Synonyms

overpay

v.

pay too much, pay excessively, overcompensate, overrecompense, over-reward, over-remunerate, overreimburse, overyield, overexceed, oversettle, pay the Devil*.

Antonyms deceive*, deprive*, cheat.

overpay Usage Examples

Object

  • footballer: Just the sort of thing to appeal to overpaid footballers.
  • VAT: Affected bodies may be able to make claims for the repayment of any VAT overpaid in the past.
  • tax: Any overpaid tax can be claimed back at the end of the tax year.
  • credit: You may also be overpaid tax credit which you will have to pay back later.
  • benefit: We will seek to recover all overpaid benefit from false claims in any event.
  • sum: Bexley Magistrates were told that the Housing Benefit Office was recovering the sum overpaid from on-going benefit payments.

Preposition: on

  • mortgage: Should you find it useful to be able to underpay or overpay on the mortgage.

Modifying Another Word

  • grossly: All decisions of the judges are final ( no recounts or legal challenges by teams of grossly overpaid lawyers will be tolerated!
  • back: Paying back overpaid housing benefit We may ask either you or the person who received the payments to pay back the overpayment.
  • much: We have heard many a time from our lecturer in Glasgow that Corporate lawyers in Edinburgh are very much overpaid.
  • n't: I don't see how anyone can say that someone earning £ 5m a year is n't overpaid.
  • not: Pierce was not overpaid, he put butts in the seats.
  • massively: I paid off the shortfall long ago, and am now on a nice little flexible repayment morgage ( overpaying massively ).

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • up: Most lenders allow borrowers to overpay up to 10 per cent of their mortgage each year without penalty.

Used with why or when

  • when: The opportunity to overpay when business is good and borrow back if the need arises.

Preposition: in

  • year: You can claim back for the last six years if you have overpaid in those years.

Preposition: for

  • year: Can she reclaim any tax she has overpaid for the 15 years?
  • coverage: To overpay for coverage about or unable business climate.
  • period: Overpay for a period of time or take a payment break.
  • right: ITV Digital did not fail because it overpaid for sports rights.