Malus Definition

noun

(business) The return of performance-related compensation originally paid by an employer to an employee as a result of the discovery of a defect in the performance.

When bank fired the loan originator, they recovered the last two years of her bonuses under the malus clause in her contract.
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  • genus Malus

Other Word Forms of Malus

Noun

Singular:
malus
Plural:
maluses

Origin of Malus

  • From Latin, by analogy with bonus (“additional compensation”)

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Malus Sentence Examples

  • The fact that other philosophers, notably Etienne Louis Malus and Augustin Fresnel, were pursuing the same investigations contemporaneously in France does not invalidate Brewster's claim to independent discovery, even though in one or two cases the priority must be assigned to others.

  • Malus and of Thomas Young, this part of his life is closely interwoven.

  • The kings great triumphs were the conclusion of the Intercursus Magnus of 1496 and the Intercursus Malus (so called by the Flemings, not by the English) of 1506.

  • The Malus Intercursus on the other hand gave England some privileges which she had not before enjoyedexemption from local tolls in Antwerp and Holland, and a licence for English merchants to sell cloth retail as well as wholesalea concession which hit the Netherland small traders and middlemen very hard.

  • T Malus gave the name of polarization, as he attributed it, on the emission theory of light, to a kind of polarity of the light-corpuscles.

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