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over·ˈpaid ADJ

1. overpaid (paid more than deserved):

overpaid
grossly overpaid

2. overpaid attr (paid in excess):

overpaid tax

over·ˈpay <-paid, -paid> VB trans

1. overpay (overremunerate):

2. overpay (pay more than required):

Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

grossly overpaid
overpaid tax

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English
If a tenant's circumstances change so that the tenant becomes entitled to "less" housing benefit, the tenant will be overpaid.
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Can you imagine being wonderfully overpaid for dressing up and playing games?
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The only way they were going to part with him was if some team grossly overpaid him.
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Prosecuted and found guilty in 2005, she was sentenced to 80 hours community service and ordered to repay 4,879 in overpaid benefits.
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They overpaid for the business and never rationalized it.
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She criticized the city's tax assessment reform plan in 1999, arguing that it was unfair to businesses that had previously overpaid.
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He later admitted that he had overpaid for it.
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In the first pay period for 2013, 1647 teachers were overpaid, 206 were underpaid and 39 were not paid at all - affecting 286 schools.
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This would unfairly penalize those federal employees who are not overpaid while still leaving others with premium wages.
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The result was awards were not even properly started for that year and may already have been overpaid.
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