overpay
overpay
Definition
over·pay (ō′vər pā′, ō′vər pā′)
transitive verb, intransitive verb -·paid′, -·pay′·ing
- to pay too much, or more than (the due amount)
- to pay too much to (someone)
o′ver·pay′·ment noun
overpay
Synonyms
overpay
v.
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
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