Word family noun pay payment repayment payer payee adjective paid ≠ unpaid underpaid ≠ overpaid payable verb pay repay underpay ≠ overpay
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishoverpaido‧ver‧paid /ˌəʊvəˈpeɪd $ ˌoʊvər-/ adjective given more money for a job than you deserve OPP underpaid grossly overpaid football playersExamples from the Corpus
overpaid• And printers, who generally regard journalists as overpaid amateurs, are not likely to give up their position without a fight.• overpaid athletes• A general right of recovery of overpaid tax could not incorporate any such restriction.From Longman Business Dictionaryoverpaido‧ver‧paid /ˌəʊvəˈpeɪd◂ˌoʊvər-/ adjectiveHUMAN RESOURCES if someone is overpaid, they are paid too much for the job they doMany CEOs are overpaid and underworked bureaucrats. 